"Also, the thrift was already on a course for probable failure by the time Mr. Schumer's letter was made public," the report said.

To dream of breaking any of your limbs, denotes bad management and probable failures.

The archive is filled with variant scripts of the show detailing how it developed from a probable failure to a smashing success.

Ader did not obtain funding for his project and this points to its probable failure.

A practical man would have expected blunders and a probable failure.

This event is locally credited as an etymology of the term to chance one's arm, which means "to perform an action in the face of probable failure".

Another agency, the United States division of Optimedia International in New York, avoided declaring any new series as probable failures.

When visiting his uncle, Mr. Miller would later recall, he felt "gangling and unhandsome" and usually heard "some kind of insinuation of my entire life's probable failure."

The agency also disclosed yesterday that some plans that it had deemed "reasonably probable" failures in its 2004 annual report did not actually fail as expected during 2005.

The men were told this evening of the probable failure of the batteries.