And this is the best case scenario.

And this, my gentle readers, would be the best case scenario.

It s hard to imagine just how bad it can be. Try, though, to imagine this scenario

The worst case scenario is street clashes between pro and anti Morsi hardliners.

The projected year end revenues and expenditures constitute a most likely case' scenario.

But a best case scenario provides a poor policy framework in our imperfect world.

Even in a worst case scenario, some degree of intra European cooperation will surely survive.

In the best case scenario, this expenditure would reduce the at risk population by only 3 .

For Iran, this development would be tantamount to a strategic worst case scenario, bringing about its definitive isolation.

So if you think about it, this is an extreme case scenario, because in the real world, whenever you are taking passenger's seat, very often the driver is going to be someone you trust, an expert, etc. So this is an extreme case scenario.

Now, analysts predict that the economy will barely grow 1 this year, and that is the best case scenario.

The exercise focuses on a real case scenario and aims at enhancing our collective ability to respond to unforeseen events.

In that case perhaps all of those crisis induced bad decades are no longer relevant.

The worst case scenario that I am willing to envisage would be political deadlock at the time of the October deadline.

But the case for quitting is bad and touches on Pakistan s future as well as Afghanistan s.

This worst case scenario is not inevitable, but there is only a short window of opportunity for policies to address the situation.

But there is also a best case scenario, where Greek debt is restructured in a way that doesn t threaten the banking system.

In a worst case scenario, Europe s sovereign debt crisis could cause the eurozone to implode, with immediate negative effects for the EU itself.

Russian bloggers are rightly concerned that Shirinkin's case might set a bad precedent for the country's Internet users.

Taken in isolation, the Egyptian situation is bad enough but it is by no means a unique case.

This may sound like a worst case scenario, but in my view it is the most likely one woe unto our children and our parents.

In the worst case scenario, the very concept of global climate policy would lose all value, with decades of climate alarmism giving way to fatalism.

A remote scenario?

SEXUAL OBSESSION SCENARIO

Even in the best case scenario, in which the euro remains intact, Europe will be bogged down with the demanding task of rebuilding its frayed union.

THE REAL DEAL SCENARIO

ANOTHER SCENARIO WORTH CONSIDERING

To the extent that the hearings focused on a few bad apples, they made the case for systematic reform less compelling.

In the case of Syria, the West has repeatedly called for diplomacy while ruling out any military action, with predictably bad results.

Neither scenario is very likely.

CAMBRIDGE Consider the following scenario.

This is the rosy scenario.

There is no alternative scenario.

In a worst case scenario, falling property prices or diminishing faith in implicit government guarantees would compound the risks generated by the shadow banking system, severely undermining China s financial stability.

Protectionism is bad for wealth, bad for democracy, and bad for peace.

But this scenario failed to materialize.

Such a scenario is not impossible.

This is no mere rosy scenario.

Another negative scenario is military rule.

One popular scenario is chronic inflation.

Let s call the first scenario Scramble .

ERW bad luck or bad intent

OK The best case scenario would be the end of the conflict itself, which would eliminate the government s justification as to the urgent need of protecting national interests by all means.

And this is just the baseline scenario.

This should not be an impossible scenario.