So why should he threaten a legal action that he is vanishingly unlikely to win, to force the church not to discriminate against him?

Software used in teams usually fails to take hold, because it requires everyone on the team to change the way they work simultaneously, something which anthropologists will tell you is vanishingly unlikely.

No, that was vanishingly unlikely.

For that matter, it was vanishingly unlikely that his father would have permitted him to enjoy such a path even if Kiron had never come to Alta.

She actually thought it vanishingly unlikely for it to be the latter.

Practical designs will choose system parameters such that a bit-error due to long run-lengths is vanishingly unlikely.

Bodies large and small did drift through space, true, but it was vanishingly unlikely that a conglomeration of pieces this large would appear without anyone noticing them.

It's vanishingly unlikely that anyone else in the Company is at risk.

So the benefits of winning, which is vanishingly unlikely, should never factor into your decision as to whether to go or not.

As the number of genetic changes rises however, one combinatorial effect is that it becomes vanishingly unlikely that the full course of adaptation can be reversed precisely.