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A fragmentation of the country along ethnic lines is a more probable scenario.

Of course, the most likely scenario is a combination of both dynamics.

BBC journalist Bahman Kalbasi noted the supreme leader's likely reply

This is not the most likely scenario, but it is not unthinkable.

But one thing that seems certain this time is the likely result.

The projected year end revenues and expenditures constitute a most likely case' scenario.

This is the least likely scenario, owing to deepening internal Party disagreements and rising popular discontent.

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A more likely scenario is that Europe muddles through by drip feeding Ukraine.

Karimov's likely successor, acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has already referred to him as like a father .

The most likely swap would probably involve territory to create a West Bank Gaza land corridor.

BEIJING Today s financial crisis and looming global recession are challenging China s export driven economic model as never before in the 30 years since Deng Xiaoping opened the economy.

If this first option is not taken the likely outcome, given the current game of political brinkmanship Greece will default.

For now, another likely candidate, political analyst and figure Ilgar Mammadov, has also launched his own page .

Ironically, the most likely way to avoid large scale confrontation between Fatah and Hamas is through an Israeli incursion into Gaza.

Another scenario almost as probable as a Labour led coalition is a weak and unstable Conservative government.

The most likely scenario, however, looks something like Turkey in 1980 an undemocratic, military dominated outcome, but no serious bloodshed.

This likely outcome mirrors the initiative for a European or global banking fund to insure against the next financial crisis.

Perhaps, but the more likely scenario is continued stagnation in the US and Europe and a more accelerated shift in economic power toward Asia.

SAN FRANCISCO John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee for president, likes to say that he was a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution.

SAN FRANCISCO 45 45 John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee for president, likes to say that he was a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution.

Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee for president, pledges to increase the rate of shipbuilding a commitment linked to an increased US presence in the Pacific.

The most likely outcome is that Syriza will soon admit defeat, like every other eurozone government supposedly elected on a reform mandate, and revert to a troika style program, sweetened only by dropping the name troika.

What is likely to happen when a large and heterogeneous coalition with barely a parliamentary majority must govern in an increasingly dire economic situation?

Another, more likely, outcome exists if anti competitive policies pursued by a country sink the euro, they will be condemned as anti European. For Europe's political leadership, the euro is a sine qua non an experiment that cannot, and will not, be allowed to fail.

America has become the default power , because China, the most likely challenger, is, by its own admission, a long way from economic or military parity with the US.

Two Australian Football League teams have hinted that they are looking into tests that would indicate an athlete s likely height, stamina, speed, and strength.

But almost all authoritative observers seem to agree that Brown is by far the most likely man to be the next Labour prime minister.

When asked who is most likely to win the GOP nomination, four in 10 said Trump was the best bet, according to a CNN ORC poll out last week.

But one little noticed, yet likely, aspirant has been sneaking up on the world economy the growing tendency to limit the free circulation of people, to fence in the rich world.

The likely winner in the June 26 run off election, Juan Manuel Santos, will pursue most of outgoing president Alvaro Uribe s domestic policies, but might change course slightly in foreign affairs.

The most likely outcome is that Tsipras will eat his words and submit to the conditions set by the troika (the European Commission, European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) before the end of June.

The risk that a systemic financial crisis will drive a more pronounced US and global recession has quickly gone from being a theoretical possibility to becoming an increasingly plausible scenario.

In fact, the most likely outcome of any Afghan power struggle triggered by an American withdrawal would be to formalize the present de facto partition of Afghanistan along ethnic lines the direction in which Iraq, too, is headed.

The timing was highly significant Merkel goes to China, the emerging global power, after declaring her own commitment to strengthening the eurozone, if not the EU as a whole, as a credible pole of an emerging multipolar world.

The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin s likely successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is Chairman of Gazprom leaves little doubt about the Kremlin s determination to maintain an iron grip on the energy sector.

Despite the probable commercial aspect behind all of this, it's the first time when one institution managed to unite for action so many important and well read bloggers (we have counted six of them).

The most likely post war scenario is a partition of Afghanistan, with the Taliban calling the shots in the Pashtun dominated south and east, and the non Pashtun northern and western regions retaining their current de facto autonomy.

A more hawkish fiscal stance may no longer be possible in future Democratic administrations, and might not be good policy if it were, given the likely complexion of successor administrations.

Davutoglu was the second most important figure in the AKP (Justice and Development Party) that has dominated Turkish politics for over a decade and his likely disappearance from the political scene is viewed as robbing the country of a potential check on Erdogan's ambitions.