Sentences with phrase «unthinkable as»

That the House of Lords should make a mistake is as unthinkable as that Colonel Bogey should be bunkered twice and take 8 to the hole.

As unthinkable as this might sound now, the marketing people at MasterCard actually considered building the splashy ad campaign they first presented on Oscar night around something other than a Boston terrier.

For many, that is unthinkable as we enjoy having our dogs with us.

There was a time, dear reader, unthinkable as it may seem, when there was no Squirrel Girl!

«When schools were under local control it would have been unthinkable as well as impossible that a head teacher of even a group of schools could earn more than a director of education, let alone the secretary of state for education, let alone the prime minister,» Mr Clarkson told the conference.

Suffice to say that when Aron finds himself facing certain death, his only option lies in a proverbial Hobson's choice as unthinkable as it is gruesome.

Capcom has done the unthinkable as they have announced a re-release of a re-release of a re-release, destroying the spacetime continuum in the process, while also bringing us Ultra Street Fighter IV in early 2014 for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.

just as unthinkable as matching sweatsuits.

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.

These two things were unthinkable as recently as last year.

Every measure should be aimed at re-educating the people of the region and at making the idea of war, intolerance and violence unimaginable and unthinkable as policy choices.

«Forcing women to breast feed would be unthinkable as an illegitimate incursion into the privacy of family life and an assault on mothers» autonomy and self - determination,» Murphy suggests.

Last season, Leicester City did the unthinkable as they held off the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur to win the Premier League title.

The Indian football achieved the unthinkable as they beat world number 112 Puerto Rico 4 - 1 in a friendly in Mumbai.

A draw would still leave us well in the mix with a lot to do, whereas a defeat would be almost unthinkable as we would drop into the bottom three.

Unthinkable as it may be, between 5 and 8 percent of American kids will experience the death of a brother or sister during their childhood.

The idea that women are over men is as unthinkable as the idea that men are over women.

Not exact matches

Finally, last year, as we were approaching 1,000 employees and 15 million users, I proposed the unthinkable to my team: «Guys, I want to put a 1 - 888 number right on our home page.»

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

First, Facebook suspended Khalil's account «as a precaution,» as if Khalil might do the unthinkable and point out another flaw.

Lately, it's gotten so bad that the couple is on the verge of the unthinkable: bringing in an outsider as CEO.

Is this remarkable episode, variously described by some observers as a Tea Party «hostage - taking» or even «suicide bombing,» going to end in the unthinkable?

As recently as 2006, such an event would have been unthinkablAs recently as 2006, such an event would have been unthinkablas 2006, such an event would have been unthinkable.

«As a father, I can not begin to imagine how anyone can carry out such an unthinkable act — murdering 22 people and injuring 59,» he said.

This is not unthinkable today as central bankers acknowledge the long - term negative consequences that their short - term inflation targeting policies may inflict.

You may dismiss this as politically unthinkable, but when the next recession comes, we will start with much higher debt levels than we had in 2008.

Unthinkable then as it is now.

If, as I suggested in my previous post, monetary policy is proving ineffective and if fiscal policy needs to be a big part of the solution, then we must consider what for many has become the unthinkable.

Today, this cryptocurrency which was started off as a parody, has achieved the unthinkable.

And just as ascetics and Romantic poets were in the past reluctant to let their suffering go (it paid off in spiritual or aesthetic currency), so many contemporary victims have learned not to let their victimization go (having gained self - definition from it, a victimless condition becomes unthinkable).

Then as we left the parking lot, the unthinkable happened.

In the last paragraph of Personal Knowledge, Polanyi describes evolutionary history as «the strivings of a myriad centres that have taken the risks of living and believing» all seeking to make «some progress of their own towards an unthinkable consummation.»

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

Similarly, God as the Ground of evolution is really the «Within» of the universe, its depth, if you will, more immanent to the universe than the universe is to itself, such that the universe is unthinkable apart from it, and yet, paradoxically, is not part of the universe.

These tablets where carved before the bible was even written and it goes to show how the bible is a replica of what is said on the ancient tablets, but some things are kept out because at the time is was unthinkable technology which then posed as a possible lie, but the technology has come to pass so it proves a lot.

Nevertheless, for Hays, scripture «portrays a world in which abortion would be not so much immoral as unthinkable or unintelligible.»

The bishop's views have been echoed by many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther's teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, has come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable a century ago.

It's a further mockery to imagine that humans need to / should reproduce... As if... The (impending) thermonuclear war that prolifer's drool over, in greedy anticipation of the next corporate - profiteering - adventure, (in Iran), has already occurred / mushroomed from a mere corporate profiteering crime to the Unthinkable!!

But if these learning processes have been undergone, through experience as well as thinking, then it is unthinkable that preaching and pastoral care, rightly understood and humbly practiced, can be in fundamental contradiction within the functions of the Christian minister.

With whatever quarrels he might have with certain aspects of liberation theology, it is unthinkable that he would have repudiated it, as some of his self - styled followers are doing today in his name.

The dynamic of man, that which man as man has to fulfill, is unthinkable without evil.

They want the United States to use this unique opportunity to exert its power so as to bring about a world of democratic states so subordinate to U.S. power that war among them will become unthinkable.

For a Christian to be unattached to a congregation is «unthinkable» as a reality.31 The church also comes together for the sacraments.

«Conversion» stands at the threshold of Judaism as well as of Christianity; both ways of righteousness are unthinkable without it.

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.

And if that standard is not met, if the explanations are not provided, we can bet with confidence that these cases, now rare, will cease to be rare, precisely as the notion of same - sex marriage has shifted from the unthinkable to the implausible to the realities springing up all around now and demanding acceptance.

«Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on the way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as unexceptionable.»

But before you dismiss this as unthinkable, ask yourself the following question.

And when the unthinkable does happen, as in the slaying of late - term abortionist George Tiller, philosophical co-believers unequivocally condemn the criminal.

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.