The reason is not hard to fathom.

The event s popularity is not hard to fathom.

The reasons behind this are not hard to fathom.

The twenty first century will be different in ways that we cannot fathom today.

Few seem to fathom the logic behind China s readiness to take on several neighbors simultaneously.

Nonetheless, the support that the military coup received from many Egyptian liberals is difficult to fathom.

Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

A very sad and dark moment, I can not even fathom the unbearable pain he must withstand, helpless in the hands of these psychopaths.

Darfur may have slipped from the news headlines, but the killing and displacement there continues as well, and the sheer human misery that it creates is very hard to fathom.

Faced with the embarrassment of his pastor s views on race and on America, Obama did not go into a huddle with spin doctors to fathom how he should deal with the problem.

It is difficult to fathom why 10  communities could be a prerequisite to educational activity, especially since one community, such as that in Minsk, may be larger than many small separate communities.

While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard the global climate disaster.

Why Putin s advisors and public relations managers encourage him to make these banal triumphalist announcements is difficult to fathom unless one comprehends the sense of grievance that almost all Russians feel at the loss of Great Power status.

There is also the selection bias that we infer from looking at the twentieth century, the most successful in terms of economic growth in human history. The twenty first century will be different in ways that we cannot fathom today.

Nonetheless, the support that the military coup received from many Egyptian liberals is difficult to fathom. Clever word games cannot hide the essence of what happened a government that came to power in a fair election was overthrown by the army.

NEW YORK It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Those pledges have now come in, from 154 countries, including the major emitters, and they fall far short of what is required. To fathom the gap between what the pledges would achieve and what is required, we need to go back to the language that everyone accepted in Rio.

The one belt, one road initiative aims to re create the ancient overland and maritime Silk Roads that carried goods and ideas from Asia to Europe. Given that the project will entail significant Chinese investment affecting some 50 countries, its appeal in the developing world is not difficult to fathom.

A country that in the summer of 2006 had to send a million of its citizens to underground shelters to escape massive ballistic warfare conducted by a non state agent, Hezbollah, now faces an Islamic Awakening that it cannot fully fathom, and, with it, an ominous worsening of its strategic environment.

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