Sentences with phrase «inconceivable at»

But if this schedule sounds absolutely inconceivable at your school, don't dismay — King has been building up to this for some 20 years.

In a city like New York, it seemed inconceivable at the time that there were not any matchmaking services catering to single affluent professionals.

I would never say never but when you listen to him speak, hear the modesty and sense the fire in his belly and also knowing what he and AW have been through it strikes me as inconceivable at the moment.

That the world should end in an orgy of pain was inconceivable at my conception in the Panama Canal Zone where the hydraulic locks were emblems of the unity of oceans.

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During a televised debate, or a press conference at the Oval Office, or on a trip to visit a fast food restaurant during a campaign, it would be almost inconceivable for a single person to have enough access or clout to be able to make a comment about a public figure — say, calling him a moron — in a way that could be viewed and archived forever.

The low purchase price (at $ 9 per share, it's only a 3 % premium on the previous trading day's closing price) means it's not inconceivable another bidder could emerge.

If you're not remarketing to people who came close to crossing the line, you're effectively restricting yourself to just one shot at getting visitors to convert in a single session — an almost inconceivable feat in today's multi-device online environment.

«Not yet,» he says, «but with so much systemic and technological change chipping away at the incumbents» models, from the exodus of young customers to ad blocking, it's not inconceivable that a tipping point can be reached that pushes centralised platforms into extinction.»

The technological challenge faced by Druker's team and Mafat (the Ministry of Defense R&D department) was like hitting a marble in the air with another marble, at high altitude and inconceivable speeds.

At each stage it has usually been the prevailing view in society that it is inconceivable that anyone would want to move beyond the proposals currently being examined and there has been a broad willingness to accept assurances that developments would go no further.

It is thus passing with a slowness, inconceivable in our measures of time, to new creative conditions, amid which the physical world, as we at present know it, will be represented by a ripple barely to be distinguished from non-entity» (RM 160).

That place is our human condition that is spelled out in Watergate; mangled bodies and land in Indochina; dry, dusty, suffering starvation in Africa; inconceivable poverty, oppression and torture in South America; humiliation and wretchedness in the slums here «at home»: and all this supported by economic structures and a system which we have supported and which destroys human beings and rapes the good earth.

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

At every level man meets his Creator, the Lord of heaven and earth, supreme in goodness and power, whose goodness is an exuberant generosity directed toward all his creatures without discrimination, and yet focussed on individuals in inconceivable intimacy.

If change really involves self - transcendence even, in certain circumstances, to a new essence, even though only in virtue of the dynamism of absolute Being, which of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spirit.

The refusal to use this terminology is, therefore, not at this point in itself a prior decision in favour of a Platonic conception of spirit, nor is it a prior decision whether within the world, that is to say within the domain of possible individual objects of cognition, there are any which absolutely and in every respect can be exempt from those «material» laws which we discover in the reality which we empirically experience, or whether this is inconceivable.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

It is not inconceivable that there would be degrees of revelational intensity at various phases in the religious dimension of the cosmic process, especially if there is a discernible axis of «progress.»

«It is inconceivable that there should be a world movement for a full franchise for women in politics without there being at the same time a movement for full opportunity for women in organized religion.

For bigness and number and generic similarity are only manners of our finite way of thinking; and, considered in itself and apart from our imagination, one scaIe of dimensions and of numbers for the Universe is no more miraculous or inconceivable than another, the moment you grant to a universe the liberty to be at all, in place of the Non-entity that might conceivably have reigned.

In this realm, as in every other, it is inconceivable that the Jews should have lived in isolation from the thinking of the world at large.

But at first glance it seems inconceivable that those who profess faith in one God or one divine essence can combine with it a spirit of mutual estrangement and hostility.

The Oilers should improve this season but it's not inconceivable that they could end up in the exact same place as they finished last season: at the bottom of the NHL's standings.

So it's not inconceivable Smith would throw soup at a coach as a joke.

3 Same excuses from Wenger OUR CLUB should not accept results like these.It is not inconceivable any one or three of these teams will be relegated.I was at every one of these games and what were the three constants in each of theses game?

im more confident in our propensity towards giving their defence some worries its inconceivable that with the attack options we have at our disposal, that we would fail to score.

i do nt know where the audacious iwobi with ridiculous dribbles has gone but his work rate is worse than ozil at his worse which seemed inconceivable.

Jamie Redknapp claimed that Jack Wilshere has no future at Arsenal Football Club, but that will be inconceivable for most Gunners fans.

If, as you say, Chamakh did tire at the halfway stage, then is it inconceivable to imagine that he couldnt be re-vitalised by the end of January, or is it normal to have jan to may off after doing a bit from sept to dec?

It almost seems inconceivable that a team good enough to ground out a 2 - 1 victory over Arsenal, who at the time were chasing the title dream, can be swept aside just days later by mid-table Fulham.

The second possibility, and not at all inconceivable, is that Arsenal and Burnley catching up, thus denying Chelsea their «important» Europa League chance.

Things like having kids be able to read proficiently at the end of kindergarten, things that are developmentally inconceivable for a lot of kids.

I know, it feels inconceivable right now but sometime in your first twelve months with your baby, you will get angry at her.

It's often said in UK politics that the Conservatives usually require a 7 percent lead in the popular vote to gain an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons; but the Labour party can get a majority with practically no lead at all (indeed it's not inconceivable that the Conservatives could have a small plurality of votes and Labour still have a majority of seats).

It is inconceivable that they will not see at least a marginal recovery from that position.

Their report concluded that it was «inconceivable» that no one, other than Goodman, knew about the extent of phone hacking at the paper, and that the Committee had «repeatedly encountered an unwillingness to provide the detailed information that we sought, claims of ignorance or lack of recall and deliberate obfuscation».

Former Assemblyman Eric Stevenson once accepted a $ 5,000 bribe, so it is not inconceivable that payments at this level could unduly influence some officials.

The practice of reusing insulin pens at the VA Hospital is inconceivable.

Duncan Hames, director of policy at Transparency International UK said: «It is almost inconceivable that campaigners would donate to each other hundreds of thousands of pounds without some assurance or agreement as to what the money would be spent on.

The Brent North MP said it was «inconceivable» that Labour MPs turned on Mr Corbyn at a time when the Prime Minister had resigned and Britain's finances appeared to teeter on the edge.

While hardly inconceivable that at least one such planet should exist in the vast reaches of universe, we search in vain for another similar example.

I argue for the latter, although it's not inconceivable that the former has taken place, that we have literally evolved so that the more pacific parts of human nature have been strengthened, at least over a span of centuries or millennia.

Such a mission is at present inconceivable, unless we can rethink it.

«This is actually rather surprising, because it was inconceivable up to now that such an unstructured state can survive at all in a cellular milieu.»

Understanding how the brain changes over time requires a new generation of tools that can work at infinitesimal scales that were once inconceivable.

At the time, this was inconceivable to me.

A similar rigour is at work here, yet permeated with a sense of melancholy, a minimalist aesthetic that renders Wang Jingmei's solitude as the moments before are coming to an unavoidable end, and the moments after are inconceivable.

The following year (2002), Buena Vista Home Entertainment finally got around to putting the Muppets» fourth and fifth films (which were made at Walt Disney Pictures in the 1990s) on DVD and they did so with some impressive bonus features and clever menus, but inconceivable fullscreen - only presentations.

By showing the death in the manner it does, it denies the fundamental volatility at the core of the mythology surrounding Chubbuck: it is a film panicked by where the «real» story takes it, erring on the side of sentiment because what lies beyond is just too inconceivable.

It's almost inconceivable that an American debut this defiantly odd — one clearly conceived as a challenge to notions of «good taste» — could be produced at this budget - level, with this cast, in 2016.