Gould later explained this seemingly improbable turn of events by stating that, within the strip's reality, Tracy was offered the job first but had declined, personally recommending Patton instead.

Among the many seemingly improbable champions of the guerrilla cause is Sitta Sittampalam, 66, a former schoolteacher with a patch of silver hair and a gold pen tucked smartly in his breast pocket.

The long-awaited trial thus began with the jurors weighing two seemingly improbable theories.

The possibility of Darwin ever writing the book becomes zero, with most futures featuring his death in seemingly improbable ways.

Given the long-standing behavioural problems that the pupils attending these sites have set the teaching staff in schools, how is it that they can be brought together in a seemingly improbable admixture with the results, orderly and controlled, as described above?

The pioneer in this field is David Phillips, a sociologist at the University of California at San Diego, who has conducted a number of studies on suicide, each more fascinating and seemingly improbable than the last.

Bizarre as some of this may sound, it would be well not to rule out the seemingly improbable, for the realm of leisure, unlike that of work, is little constrained by practical considerations.

The rivalry has also been home to seemingly improbable plays, like two special team disasters for the Vikings, which costed them 14 points in a 2008 48-41 loss to the Bears.

Above the sanctuary's water-stained wooden doors hangs a seemingly improbable sign, in English and Chinese: "Chinese Baptist Church."

Staten Island is their seemingly improbable hub: people knowledgeable about the community say roughly 3,000 Liberians live in Park Hill alone, most of them refugees or political asylum seekers.