Sentences with phrase «almost unimaginable»

«As The Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary year, its accomplishments are amplified by reaching the $ 5 million mark - a goal that seemed almost unimaginable to the board members and volunteers who have worked so hard to improve the lives of people throughout Southern California since its inception on May 16, 1995.»

Without pioneers like Bob, today's practice is almost unimaginable.

When a loved one is lost needlessly through the negligence of another party the emotional trauma is almost unimaginable.

The pool of prospective clients on Facebook is almost unimaginable.

In addition, it is rarely acknowledged that those public servants were often working in an atmosphere of almost unimaginable pressure, without the academic luxury of endless time for debate.

«It's all about transport systems, heating systems and power systems, and it's a dramatic change — dramatic change — and the amount of low carbon energy we're going to need is just almost unimaginable.»

The thing about these critters, the really mind - blowing part, is their incredible, almost unimaginable diversity — yet each with their own vibrant flare, like they were all dreamed up by an artist on acid.

«For the most part, the dancing manias [after the dreadful miseries of the Black Death,] present more of the characteristics which we associate with epidemic infectious diseases of the nervous system.They seem, rather, like mass hysterias brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished and wretched to a degree almost unimaginable today.»

They seem more like «mass hysteria brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished, and wretched to a degree almost unimaginable today.

That projection — almost unimaginable less than a decade ago — results from the energy revolution, in which private investment and private producers are accessing vast quantities of oil and natural gas from shale and other tight - rock formations, safely and responsibly, via modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Thank you — it is liberating to feel that the yoke of consensus enforcement * finally * lifting, if only a crack; congratulations and profound appreciation to all of us who have toiled so hard and so long against almost unimaginable levels of victimization.

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

A work environment without project work is almost unimaginable nowadays.

The worst that could happen if the US doesn't significantly reduce its greenhouse gas production rates is almost unimaginable environmental disaster that will cause not only financial collapse but also billions of deaths.

The Amazon is referred to as a climate tipping point because research shows following a 21st century global average temperature rise most of the Amazon basin may dry out, leading to a massive biome shift — accompanied by many gigatonnes of extra CO2 emissions and almost unimaginable biodiversity loss, placing the cascading Anthropocene Extinction in top gear.

The outcome presents itself as something like a bargello textile pattern, almost unimaginable as the granular structure of television's engulfing illusions.

«The Big World» alludes to the vast, almost unimaginable scale of contemporary Chinese art in the international art scene, but the title also references a large and storied Shanghai amusement park.

It seems almost unimaginable that the sparse, abstract works on show here were made by an artist known for canvases heaving under dense layers of paint.

This streak is almost unimaginable, showing a company that's back on form and ready to make gaming history.

Given the profitability of this business model for other publishers, it is almost unimaginable that Nintendo will stick to full game sales only.

The reduction in pet overpopulation that Beatrice and WTPC Rescue Project achieved by spaying nearly 400 cats is almost unimaginable!

The destruction wreaked by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma over the past weeks is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of homes severely damaged or destroyed, tens of thousands of people in temporary shelters.

If the company were to fail it would indeed be... the largest most terrible financial collapse on record, a stupendous event historically; but for the vast majority... it would very simply mean a personal disaster of almost unimaginable proportions... Strangers met and mutually strengthened their faith (in the company) with words of comfort.»

Knowledge is the power to act with purpose and most consumers don't realize this but a credit score can impact your life in an almost unimaginable way.

Even ten years ago it was almost unimaginable to think we could sell books like that.

It's almost unimaginable that in a city like Chicago, 3 out of 4 schools don't have instructional support for technology and school librarians to teach digital literacy.

This statistic is staggering and almost unimaginable from where they were a decade ago.»

What neighbors first found when they dashed into the street at 2 a.m. — and police investigators later collected — testified to an almost unimaginable human horror of torture, sexual sadism, and homicide.

Building on the triumphs of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things, set in a world of almost unimaginable beauty, The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers.

From the almost unimaginable cruelty of John Voss's parents to Mrs. Whiting's coldness toward Cindy, to Grace's emotional withdrawal from David (and to some extent Miles) when she joins the Whiting household, the novel contains several examples of the emotional and physical harm parents inflict on their children.

In fact, the forces at work inside these cars are almost unimaginable.

Given its recent history, it's almost unimaginable that Mazda finds itself on track to report a ¥ 45 billion profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 and, if analysts are correct, set to double earnings for fiscal 2013 and possibly triple them in 2014.

Given this recent history, it is almost unimaginable that Mazda, known for nifty sports cars and rotary engines, finds itself on track to report a ¥ 45 billion ($ 456 million) profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 and, if analysts are correct, set to double earnings for 2013 and possibly triple them in fiscal 2014.

Its capabilities are mind - blowing, its potency almost unimaginable.

It is annual rite of almost unimaginable cruelty.

«In the streets in Yemen where daily life is beyond difficult, I've learned about the almost unimaginable capacity for the human spirit...

«Those were the days of the speculator boom, and everything was selling in numbers that are almost unimaginable in today's market,» Marz tells Newsarama.

Somehow Streep seems always larger than whatever she is required to do, while Roberts has accomplished the almost unimaginable: I forgot it was Julia.

Thanks to the kindness of friends, strangers and a very patient landlord, this story has a happy ending, and it's all chronicled quite nicely in Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, a documentary which captures the eccentric ornithologist communing with his flock with an intimacy that's almost unimaginable.

I would thus say that «Life Itself» was given the highest praise by them: everyone sat firmly in their seats and no cell phones popped out at any time, something that is almost unimaginable these days.

Based on a true story, it takes you into the sewers of the Polish city of Lvov during World War II, a place where a group of Jews lived for more than a year under circumstances that are almost unimaginable.

The film left me with a tantalizingly unanswered question: If Petit could only achieve bliss through acts of almost unimaginable daring, what must life be like for him now?

Moving southward, the focus shifts to Justin Knopf and Keith Thompson, whose large Great Plains operations have become successful laboratories for «no - till farming,» an almost unimaginable notion not long ago that has won a fast - growing number of converts.

Heineman is granted almost unimaginable access to the violence and backroom dealings of the lawless region, capturing everything from an entire village, housewives and all, turning on police who try to crack down on the Autodefensas to scenes of the white shirts slipping into the same, sadistic tactics as their enemy.

Fasting from technology may be almost unimaginable in this day and age, but it is well worth the experiment.

The thought of cutting it out is almost unimaginable.

To build a city on a continent that may never have seen one before, to create a community out of mud and cobbles and hand - hewn boulders in the grimmest of deserts, required an almost unimaginable toughness and determination.

«It's almost unimaginable that people would transmit stories about things like islands that are currently underwater accurately across 400 generations.»

This innovation promises an almost unimaginable advance in basic medicine and health — a technology that inactivates known and emerging viruses and other pathogens in the world's blood supply.

It seemed almost unimaginable.