Sentences with phrase «see it unthinkable»

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In this groundbreaking new book, Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable, introduces a powerful way of seeing the world.

We may, if you wish, allow that he was sometimes imperfectly reported, and it is certain that we have a very inadequate «coverage» of the most important life the world has ever seen, but the more one studies these brief and incomplete records, the more unthinkable it becomes that they should be mere human fabrications.

In his address to the conference, Henry Smith Leiper said, «And because of what we have seen of the dependence of the world mission on the Church, we who have had active service in the mission field know that as truly as a world mission without an urge to unity is unthinkable, a Christian Church without a consciousness of world mission ought to be also unthinkable».30 He then added, «am ecumenical movement without a sense of world mission to spread that community is a complete anomaly.

In the act of conceiving of God (an act made necessary by His removal of «His way from human sense») we conceive, bring into being, put into place, a landscape in which actions are labeled «possible,» «desirable,» mandatory,» «unthinkable,» and so on; and each time one of those actions is taken or avoided or not seen as a possibility, that landscape becomes ever firmer in its configurations and ever more resistant to a basic alteration.

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But when we see it every day in practice, it is not unthinkable that she would do it and she will do it again.»

I am realistic and I cant see this squad doing the unthinkable.

We have seen massive underdogs in the first and second round of the NBA playoffs, but this type of line was almost unthinkable for a Conference Finals game.

Fulham were the hosts, and the lucky side to have faced a clearly uninterested and lacking in motivation Wigan Athletic, who as a result of their lethargic afternoon display down at Craven Cottage threw away a promising run of four matches unbeaten in the league which had seen them do something of the unthinkable in Greater Manchester; string a run of results together.

I have always been behind Arsene Wenger but think the situation is serious enough now with the lack of confidence growing with the fans, and maybe even with the players who don't see to give of their best anymore, that it would be better all round for him to leave Arsenal at the end of the season, or even before should the unthinkable happen and we lose to Sutton tomorrow.

It was an almost unthinkable outcome before the game seeing Blackpool were making their Premier League début against a club which recorded home wins over both Chelsea and Liverpool last season, but if the Tangerines had any fear whatsoever they clearly didn't so any affects, as Blackpool rammed home a heart sent message to the rest of the league that if the club are to go down, they're going to go down fighting.

You'll see quite a bit of her if you live in Marin County She and two of her friends will hang in public places doing the unthinkable for hours on end: breastfeed in public.

Politicians, such as Frank Field, seeing the true costs, were prepared to think the unthinkable.

«The Oba stated during the meeting that it is unthinkable for a man with his level of exposure to do or say anything that would be seen as discriminatory against the female gender.

«Anything would be unthinkable unless the cost of politics was frozen and cut, so I'll wait and see what Ipsa have to say.

While the prospect of a Lab - Lib coalition would have been unthinkable as recently as early 2012, it is now seen by many as the most likely outcome.

I was surprised to see Frank Field voting against, I remember when he was asked to think the unthinkable, which he did and then Labour kicked it all into the long grass, prefering to do nothing — much the same as today.

«Too often, we are able to see the warning signs that an individual close to us poses a risk of serious harm, but lack a mechanism to prevent unthinkable tragedies such as interpersonal gun violence or suicide,» said Brooklyn Assembly member Jo Anne Simon who sponsored the bill.

I didn't have to touch up my makeup all day and even did the unthinkable - I slept with my makeup on to see if it works.

The type of character I have long been waiting to see onscreen, he's both familiar and novel, and his presence gives way to moments heretofore unthinkable in mainstream cinema, like the museum scene, which would make Martinican poet Aimé Césaire proud, as it seems like the direct illustration of a paragraph from «Discourse on Colonialism.»

A previously unthinkable deal was reached between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios that will see the former lease out the Spider - Man character to the latter, who is quite simply the most formidable superhero studio around.

Having now seen the film as directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg originally intended, it's unthinkable that the film ever existed without the emotionally climactic number — a thought apparently shared by the powers that be as expressed in the DVD documentary featurette about the history of the song; it's amusing to see how what was initially a tossed - off suggestion (by composer Alan Menken) snowballed into the costly (both financially and artistically) decision to lose the key romantic moment of the film.

It is clear many of these new cars will be ordered in radical colors and interior schemes unthinkable prior to the German takeover and the market's extensive expansion, and we see that as a positive thing keeping stuffiness away.

On top of this, Phryne's plan to continue seeing the soon - to - be-married Lin Chung has Mr Butler threatening the unthinkable.

A powerful historically accurate book that brings alive the life of one woman enduring the emotional and physical hardships of slavery - written so well and so lyrically that we feel and see all she does - we are there - it is a visceral experience to read this book and I could not put it down - a true look at and experience of the human experience as it endures the unthinkable and yet retains it's humanity.

I'm glad to see Weiland doing the largely unthinkable and discussing a case of her own in which an attempted novel simply wasn't coming together despite the fact that the completion of the first draft went all the way back to October 2011.

Of course, according to the government itself, incomes haven't stagnated since 1969, like I see claimed a lot, so a rise in housing prices comparing what we can compare, may not be unthinkable (plus, the US has grown as a population, so this is expected too).

Come March 2011, players will get to hop into the shoes of Guerrilla protagonist Alec Mason's grandson Darius Mason who, after being forced to move underground due to super-tornados and lightning storms that engulf the planet's surface, gets tricked into unleashing an «unspeakable threat» — that's Martian monsters of one sort of another then, as seen from the trailer above — and toy around with «unthinkable advanced weaponry».

MoMA QNS had begun its brief life less than a year before, and «Matisse Picasso» was creating the unthinkable, lines to see art in Queens.

A: Ten years ago, the idea of people traveling from Manhattan to see art in Brooklyn was unthinkable.

«Surely a photograph of a rat borrowed from the NYC Health Department files and mechanically reproduced is not a creation of artistic imagination... it would be unthinkable to see the picture on exhibition in a museum.»

It is unthinkable that such a historically and socially important sector is relegated to such fringe status, and perhaps fails to consider the role that sustainable agriculture can play in carbon mitigation, as a McKinsey report discusses in detail (see pp. 119 - 127 of McKinsey's China's Green Revolution).

Richard Elliott, executive director of the Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network, said: «It's unthinkable to me, as the head of an organization that works on human rights issues, that we might see in 2013 in Canada a law school that is permitted to train people for the practice of law, adopt a policy that overtly discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.

Look at direct competitors, and see what everyone is doing the same,» says Williams, author of Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business (Pearson Education, 2011).