We want to know how likely, or relatively how likely, two different explanations are.

They are also less likely to be self employed and half as likely as men to be employers.

Your brain doesn't know. Because both are equally likely.

Effective remedies are likely to deter human rights violations.

They are posh, they're wealthy, they're less likely to have outdoor jobs, they're less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, they're less likely to smoke so for a whole host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they are less likely to have skin wrinkles.

Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non smokers are.

The parents are more likely to respect what he'd done.

Small satellites are likely to offer new opportunities for procurement methods.

By contrast, older users (1) are less likely to do stupid things in the first place, and (2) are less likely to do so in range of a camera. (Of course, there are notable exceptions.)

People from ethnic minorities are less likely to suffer from high cholesterol levels, but more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and obesity.

Most Parties experienced or are likely to experience difficulties in implementing measures.

In the public domain, women are less likely to achieve senior positions.

The latter two objectives are likely to take even longer to achieve.

It's just an unconditional probability distribution that tell us, for example, that courses are only 40 likely to be difficult and 60 likely to be easy.

As well as being married you are likely to be much happier than if you are single.

Lawyers with expertise in maritime cases are more likely to practice in or near a port and judges with expertise in maritime issues are more likely to sit in courts with jurisdiction over ports.

So, natural selection will favor organisms that are more likely to cause damage.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school.

Three factors all likely to persist this year are driving these unsettling trends.

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

Single adolescent women who become pregnant are more likely to drop out of school, thus compromising their future earning capacity and becoming more likely to end in poverty.

Much more likely, they will be two to four times richer than we are.

So women are much more likely to do this kind of thing than men.

And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.

Developing countries' target tourism markets are likely to be organizing their travel arrangements online.

It is therefore clear that female addicts are more likely to seek this assistance.

Families, which suffer this abuse, are not likely to come forward and seek support.

The expected changes are likely to be spread unevenly across developing countries and sectors.

Cancers that are detected early when they are small and less likely to have metastasized (spread away from the primary tumor) are more likely to be treatable with local therapy, whereas successful treatment is ultimately unlikely once metastatic tumors develop. And improved therapies mean that patients can be treated with drugs that work better (and that patients are more likely to receive the full dose needed).

Moreover, political gridlock will ensure that little is done about the other festering problems confronting the American economy mortgage foreclosures are likely to continue unabated (legal complications aside) small and medium sized enterprises are likely to continue to be starved of funds and the small and medium sized banks that traditionally provide them with credit are likely to continue to struggle to survive.

But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second time.

What matters is how likely or unlikely, relative to each other, the two explanations are.

The more choices you have, the more likely you are to make the best choice.

For example, the elevators in this building most likely are controlled by one of these.

The more difficult the questions are, the less likely I'll be able to answer them.

Instead they are likely to be small groups or networks of individuals with specific skills.

Current food stocks of 74,000 metric tonnes are not likely to last beyond July 2005.

Other oil exporting ESCWA member countries are less likely to favour rapid government expenditure increases.

Arms shipments using a trans shipment point before routing to Somalia are likely to occur.

Assistance, support and capacity building targeted at women are likely to make for enduring results.

The other four countries concerned are at the drafting stage, but are likely to complete the process after the deadline

Muslims living in Paris, London, and Berlin are more religious than the general public, but they are just as likely as anyone else to identify with their nation and its democratic institutions, and just as likely to reject violence.

Additionally, water bottles without crevices and tough to clean spots are less likely to host germs.

Males are much more likely to die an accidental death in the prime of their life.

And as it turns out, the older you get, the less likely you are to divorce.