Sentences with phrase «unthinkable just»

Birth control has enabled women to achieve educational, employment and personal goals that were unthinkable just a generation or two ago.

But, then again, much of what's happened in Redmond during the last year would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

And while it was unthinkable just five years ago, many law firms are using cloud - based services and storing sensitive client and firm data in the cloud.

That's a timetable for steep emissions reductions almost unthinkable just a few years ago.

The revolution in North American energy development has been made possible by technological breakthroughs in decades - old methods of energy development, which has set this nation on the path to energy security, a concept unthinkable just a few years ago.

Renewable Energy World Well, what was unthinkable just a short while ago is now the reality, and Donald Trump is President - elect of the United States, sending shockwaves across the U.S. and around the world.

In a literally world - changing deal that was almost unthinkable just a year ago, some two hundred leading nations unanimously embraced a plan that will leave most of the world's fossil fuels unburned.

As reported by Robin Pogrebin in a recent New York Times article, the Museum of Modern Art is planning a move that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: reinstalling its permanent collection outside of the museum's traditional hierarchy, which placed painting and sculpture at the top of the pyramid, with drawing, prints, photographs, and illustrated books playing supporting roles, and film, performance, digital media, architecture, and design as outliers of varying importance.

How did something that would have been unthinkable just a few years earlier come about?

The study marks a watershed moment, with the potential for early detection and new treatments that were unthinkable just a year ago, according to Steven Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute at MIT.

TB is returning on a scale that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago and now Wall Street and the politicians know about it.

Yet it is another development — the ability not only to understand but also to synthesize genes at a speed and cost unthinkable just a few years ago — that has spurred, arguably, the greatest paradigm shift in recent biology: Today, many scientists are not content merely to analyze and understand life.

He recently sent a drone over the erupting Lusi mud volcano in Java, Indonesia, to sample gas, water and mud — something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

So, though it may have seemed unthinkable just yesterday, the Senate mess is even messier than before.

Don't look now, but an idea that was considered politically unthinkable just a few years ago when then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed it has quietly gained well - deserved support among elected officials whose influence is needed to help it move forward.

It would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, he observes.

Theoretically, there's nothing being achieved here that couldn't have been done with town hall posters, letters and a few phone calls, but the ability of Twitter to communicate with a staggering number of people instantly allows it to galvanise popular movements - and then coordinate them - with a speed and efficiency which would have been unthinkable just three years ago.

Also, $ 14 million is a lot of freaking money, the kind of money that would've been unthinkable just a few cycles ago here in New York State.

Such scenes, which were repeated in dozens of Russian towns and cities (albeit on a smaller scale), were unthinkable just a week ago.

An amicable resolution would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago.

Messi leaving the Camp Nou would've been unthinkable just a year ago — but after Neymar's incomparable move to PSG, every possibility feels like it's in play.

It'd also give him the solo lead heading into the weekend, something absolutely unthinkable just a couple of hours before when he walked off the 7th green.

It seemed unthinkable just a couple years ago.

It was unthinkable just over a month ago, but that was before Bautista looked completely unintimidating in the postseason.

He was a leader, a role model in the kitchen — unthinkable just a few years earlier.

Such an event would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago» but so would the election of someone like Frank Page during the long years of the Controversy that roiled the Southern Baptist Convention.

This year, the members of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. accomplished something that would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago: they produced a feature - length motion picture...

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

Not exact matches

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.

We had just gotten through a successful tax season when the unthinkable happened: The youngest of our three children, 4 - year - old Nicholas, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissue.

The transcendent impact of good customer service can inspire your customers to do the unthinkable — just ask 47 - year - old North Carolina native Shirley Ratliff.

In this age of zero privacy, Mark Leonard has managed to maintain a practically unthinkable level of anonymity for just about any individual — let alone an IT executive who runs one of Canada's most dynamic, fastest - growing and most acquisitive software companies, and who has been compared favourably with Warren Buffett and Prem Watsa.»

On the maintained assumption that the elimination of financial intermediation is unthinkable, then the simple annulment of almost any category of modern debt is just not possible, (we shall discuss student debt at greater length in Section 8).

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).

The bishop in my own diocese just announced plans to establish 100 new worshipping communities in the next ten years (this would have been unthinkable five years ago).

Of course, in the past «same - sex marriage would have been unthinkable or considered ridiculous,» but that's just my point.

«I'm not Catholic, but I know enough to know that this would have been unthinkable for a pope to believe or say just a few years ago,» Limbaugh continued.

«The destruction done to this sacred site is just unthinkable, unforgivable.

It would have been an unthinkable suggestion just a few months ago, when the insults were at their peak.

And then the unthinkable happened, he asked to try it — just a little tiny bit on a chip, but he was about to eat guac!

He broke his neck in 2015, which meant that, among other indignities and scares, he had to stand on the sideline here at University of Phoenix Stadium and watch Clemson finish just short of doing the unthinkable against Alabama.

I am not just talking about the possibility of the side finishing sixth in the Premier League missing out because of the FA cup winner's place either, but the almost unthinkable situation of us finishing lower than sixth.

With that in mind, if the unthinkable happens, and we are left with just Petr Cech as our solitary (although fantastic) signing, where do we have to improve or change in order to be competitive this year.

Well just when you thought that it couldn't be true, the unthinkable happens.

The fact that Everton won at home puts them just three points behind us, bringing up the unthinkable possibility that the in form Toffees could actually overtake us.

Anything less than 3 points is unthinkable for us tonight, infact we need to boost our goal difference up, just in case WBA do the unthinkable against City?

This time, however, it was the Tennessee defense with the unthinkable blunder that just makes your head want to asplode.

Also finishing 2nd will be disappointing but finishing behind Spuds would just be unthinkable especially if they win the league.

Team The Alley are just 2 wins away from accomplishing the unthinkable..

In 1982, they made their first NCAA Tournament in a 23 - 6 season — both unthinkable accomplishments considering what the team had experienced just years earlier.