The law ofprobabilities decreed me guiltless of his blood; for in all my small experience with guns I had never hit anything I had tried to hit, and I knew I had done my best to hit him.
It is quite within the probabilitiesthat this same thing was happening all over the South.
For purposes of life it is entirely reasonable to treat probabilities as certainties.
The theory of pre-existent souls is opposed to all the probabilities suggested by experience.
Around 1653, he laid the foundations for the theory of probabilities after being asked by a gambling friend why, in playing dice, some frequencies came up more often than others.
Old Probabilitiesis willing and he loves humanity, but his powers and privileges are limited.
There are those who say that it is due to the kind endeavors of Old Probabilities to satisfy everybody that our weather has at times become so strangely mixed.
Our hearts turn back fondly to Old Probabilities and his friendly assurance: "It is probable that tomorrow will be fair.
Old Probabilities is a gentle family name and came out of the affection of the people.
Apologists will say that the probabilitiesin the case of a man do not hold in the case of a God.
The probabilities were, of course, very much against such good fortune, and it was almost certain, that even did we find either of them, it would be useless after being knocked about by the violent handling of the river.
At eleven o'clock next morning I sent three of the men back to Mr. Haddock's, from whose estancia the lost troop had been acquired, the probabilities being that they had headed back for home.
This is not to be very much wondered at; for if there be anything on which the most sensible men are dull-eyed, where those eyes are not lighted by jealousy, it is as to the probabilities of another male creature being beloved.
When the probabilities of restoration to your principalities seemed well-nigh certain, you confirmed that promise on learning from Mr. Leslie that he had, however ineffectively, struggled to preserve your heiress from a perfidious snare.
All this is quite possible, and the probabilities for and against are quite out of reach.
Any person the least used to the theory of probabilities will see that purely casual coincidence, the wrong spectre being comparatively so rare that it may be said never to occur, is not within the rational field of possibility.
She had glanced off from her parental probabilities at an unexpected angle.
Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities of failure in what he has undertaken.
Do not laugh at me, for I think it no inconsiderable step toward success to have divined all the probabilitieswhich may oppose my success.
The conditions or probabilities of origin, and of date of culture, are, it will be seen, identical for the two cultivated species of luffa.
As they were already based on a combination of methods, probabilities have usually become certainties, and I have not been led to conclusions absolutely contrary to those previously formed.
On the whole, it seems to me that the probabilities are in favour of an African origin, as its name indicates, and this is confirmed by the general, but insufficiently grounded opinion of authors.
The probabilities are all in favour of an Asiatic origin, to judge from the data furnished by geographical botany.
The sum of facts and probabilities appear to me to lead to the following statements, which may be accepted until they are modified by further discoveries.
He gathers probabilities from every source, and then compares these probabilities, weighs and discusses them before deciding.
From the ancient use of the plant and the home of the most analogous species, the probabilities are in favour of a Mexican, Texan, or Californian origin.
He thought that upon the whole the balance ofprobabilities turned in her favor.
But the probabilities against such, a concurrence in any one case are enormous, and against their concurrence in a large number of cases the chances are practically infinite.
All the probabilitiesagainst the separate variations must be combined, not by addition, but by multiplication, so that the probabilities against the production of all these separate forms become enormous.
What are the conditions from which the probabilities may be calculated?
And this must be repeated again and again; and with every repetition of the process required, the probabilities against it would rapidly increase.
Arrange and rate the options according to their probabilities for results favorable to the UIPS, and separately, favorable to the interests of the Outer Region's Nations.
The lower section of the tank registered the computer's quantification of speculations by the President's advisors, and their probabilities toward realization.
The strongest probabilities cannot induce them to give an affirmative verdict.
Old Tabaret remained some minutes without answering; he was estimating the probabilities resulting from M.
The probabilities are that it may be long before you chance upon these same species again.
Tell the florist you wish it for your use and the probabilities are that he will be so much interested in your plants that you will get more for the same amount of money than I could if I were to go for you.
In the latter case, the probabilities were that the pirates would put me to death.
We might possibly reach some port; but the probabilities were that he would overtake us before we could do so, and the appearance of fear would encourage him to follow us.
The letter proved to contain much valuable information as to stopping places and the probabilities of getting dogs between Rigolet and Battle Harbour, as well as the good news that a steamer was expected at Battle Harbour early in May.
Some of the published quantitative estimates made by serious and able students of such problems, of the probabilities that certain coincidences have been due to chance have been pronounced altogether wide of the mark and even absurd by others.
The word is italicized, as if to intimate that probabilities have no claims which a theologian is bound to respect.
The weighing of probabilities we had regarded as a proper exercise of the mind preparatory to forming an opinion.
On the other hand, chance carries no probabilities with it, can never be developed into a consistent system, but, when applied to the explanation of orderly or beneficial results, heaps up improbabilities at every step beyond all computation.
Wherefore "Christians have a right to protest against the arraying of probabilities against the clear teachings of Scripture.
We are beyond the region of demonstration, and have onlyprobabilities to consider.
We must admit that all probabilities must be against miracles, for the reason that that which is probable cannot by any possibility be a miracle.
The probabilities are on the side of our experience, and, consequently, against the miraculous; and it is a necessity that the free mind moves along the path of least resistance.
She turned, therefore, to the printed comments which day by day accompanied the report of the proceedings, gathering from them the progress made, and their ideas of the probabilities which lay in the future.
The progress seemed rapid; the probabilities were damning.
She classified the probabilities under five heads.
Sidenote: and see whether the many probabilities do not make a certainty.
The probabilities were all against the personator being Godfrey Bellingham.
And this was a distinct advantage, inasmuch as it left one to consider the facts of the case without regard to motive--to balance the prima facie probabilities with an open mind.
Would you mind, Doctor Thorndyke, telling us just how the matter stands in your opinion--what the probabilities are, for and against?
And it may surprise you to learn that those prima facie probabilities pointed from the very first to that solution which has been put to the test of experiment this evening.
I am considering the various probabilities merely in the abstract.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "probabilities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
