Unfortunately, dark clouds are gathering as pursuit of that path seems less likely this afternoon.
With each passing year, it seems less likely that anything will fundamentally divert its course.
In the meantime, the Postal Service seems less likely to innovate than ever.
While there may be a last minute deal, as there was with the fiscal cliff, it seems less likely.
Despite Golkar's long reach, it now seems less likely that it will win a significant share of the vote.
Buying lots of booze does not make you a drunk-driver, but someone who buys little or none seems less likely to be one.
Those remaining are struggling to cover the fuel rods with water, using sea water and fire hoses, an ad hoc battle that seems less likely to succeed as each day goes by.
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Whether it will succeed in burnishing the cultural image of teaching once the economy has recovered, and students at elite universities are once again enticed by the high pay offered elsewhere, seems less likely.
But our correspondent said further direct government investment in the banks - a new banking bail out - seems less likely, although given the scale of the crisis this option has not been definitively ruled out.
But even as Washington tightens its regulatory grip over the existing cigarette lines, it seems less and less likely that the tobacco firms are going to be able to fulfill their half of the aspiration enshrined in the legislation.
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In the current market environment with equity values down sharply, that perception seems far less likely.
And one group that seems even less likely to fall foul of the downturn is the divorce lawyers themselves.
Even so, it seems acquisitive companies are less likely to get the cold shoulder when their deals are announced.
It seems likely that less than 10% of the population has the ability to avoid the pitfalls of retirement planning.
It seems likely that the less popular measures would have a hard time surviving if they had to be voted on separately.
Even if he were to hint at a third bout of quantitative easing, another round of QE seems likely to have less impact on American growth than the previous two.
More-expensive and less-available credit seems likely to continue to be a source of restraint on economic growth.
But this decision seems likely to be followed by a less prudent one.
Likewise in Portugal, which though less severely troubled than Greece nevertheless seems likely to follow Ireland to the bail-out window.
Some congressional action on immigration and gun laws seems likely, though what emerges could be significantly less than what Obama wants.
New pensioners, it seems, are far more willing to enjoy life and less likely to worry about the inheritance they will leave than are septuagenarians and octogenarians.
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Businesses will be less likely to invest and open shop in a country that seems unwilling or unable to balance its books.
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It seems likely, then, that the Blair-Brown decision was conditioned less by politics than economics.
It may not mend any fences and given the less-than-contrite nature of many of his answers, the whole fiasco hardly seems likely to gain him much sympathy.
The move to 3G networks in the UK now seems a lot more likely than it did a few months ago, but elsewhere things are a lot less clear.
Switching involves looking at an element of the screen and giving a big blink to select -- the display seems adjusted in such a way that normal blinks won't trigger it, so you're less likely to accidentally set something off.
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Nor, it seems, does the Clinton Administration understand that tolerating Syria's behavior makes real peace less, not more, likely.
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