Mr. Montgomery came to money management by an unlikely route.

His late mother was his unlikely route into becoming the author of Casca books.

McDowell took an unlikely route to be Mazzone's successor.

We wrest secrets from nature by the most unlikely routes.

That seems an unlikely route to expanded world production, trade, employment and economic growth.

Along his unlikely route to the fourth round of the United States Open, he had a very un-academy existence.

If this seems like an unlikely route to the "Tonight" show, it has its rewards.

Their most unlikely route, he said, would be to support Democrats.

Always by the most unlikely route and always under the tightest security.

There's nothing like outdueling the world's most tenacious player in a third-set tie breaker, but that was Halard's unlikely route to victory.