Michael Hansmeyer Building unimaginable shapes

All of this was unimaginable a month ago.

Mismanage the process, and the consequences could be unimaginable.

We heard personal stories of unimaginable heartbreak, pain, and despair.

So, why do Europe s leaders find this intermediate solution so unimaginable?

Yet, the tsunami was a whole new order of the unimaginable .

And it is childhood cancer that has the greatest potential to catapult a remote fear into an unimaginable reality.

It is not unimaginable that this type of cooperation could be extended to include other neighbors around the Levant.

These benefits range from communications to search and rescue to navigation and weather forecasting capabilities unimaginable to previous generations.

In addition, millions of people are suffering unimaginable physical and psychological trauma that will take a long time to heal.

Such a scenario, unimaginable a few months ago, may already be shaping up as the Ukraine drama moves to its endgame.

So the stakes in righting the world economy could not be higher. Mismanage the process, and the consequences could be unimaginable.

Of course, Japan did occupy China, committed unimaginable savagery, and has since paid no reparations or apologized in a convincing way.

And the unimaginable happened it became the first car to ever return from a DARPA Grand Challenge, winning Stanford 2 million dollars.

We never saw it coming, they confessed. The Cold War had lasted so long that change seemed unimaginable until freedom burst forth.

If he becomes Fatah s leader (and hence leader of the PA and the PLO as well), any compromise with Israel would become unimaginable.

NEW YORK The Greek debt crisis has prompted questions about whether the euro can survive without a nearly unimaginable centralization of fiscal policy.

Continents and cultures are now cabled together and bound by trade and services in a way that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

Already, the end of the Cold War and painstaking diplomacy have brought the US India relationship to a point unimaginable just ten years ago.

So I started to try to study at home, just with my school books, as having access to the Internet would have been an unimaginable luxury.

As I write, inflation in Zimbabwe has reached an unimaginable (if not unpronounceable) level of more than 500 quintillion per cent. One quintillion is one million trillion.

But such class struggle terminology reminds people of the Cultural Revolution and, since such language would be unimaginable in inland China today, only makes Tibet seem more separate.

Otherwise, the same young people will swell the ranks of the frustrated and unemployed, with unimaginable consequences in terms of social unrest and the risk of organized violence.

Even the right in the United States has joined the Keynesian camp with unbridled enthusiasm and on a scale that at one time would have been truly unimaginable.

Perhaps the world has even become accustomed to reports of losses of human life and the unimaginable scale of the disasters that have been afflicting our planet since December 2004.

Huge potential sources of scientific information yet to be gathered, much of our environmental stability and new kinds of pharmaceuticals and new products of unimaginable strength and value all thrown away.

But, after three years of unimaginable carnage, the Kaiser had been reduced to an instrument of a military dictatorship run by Paul von Hindenburg and his chief of staff, Erich Ludendorff.

The urgency can hardly be exaggerated nuclear weapons may come into the possession of states that might use them, as well as of stateless terrorists creating new threats of unimaginable proportion.

For believers in the benefits of diversity, California represents the largest social experiment in human history, bringing people of different backgrounds together in a way unimaginable in, say, Germany, China, or Brazil.

But there may be a lesson from a country whose wartime rulers, quarrelling among themselves, inflicted unimaginable harm on their people and to the world with their mendacious, secretive, and paranoid style.

Rebuilding after the carnage and devastation seems like an unimaginable task. Yet behind the scenes, archaeologists and other scholars across the world are working to save the remains of Syria s ancient heritage.

Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.

At the same time, French and Dutch citizens voices cannot be ignored all the more so because it is unimaginable that an identical text could be submitted to a second referendum in either country.

NEW YORK We are all Keynesians now. Even the right in the United States has joined the Keynesian camp with unbridled enthusiasm and on a scale that at one time would have been truly unimaginable.

But let us imagine what was unimaginable even a few months ago a world where the present diminution of conflict holds, and where discussions between Israel and Palestine arrive at a mutually acceptable recognition of each state s sovereignty.

Rapid progress in the emerging economies has contributed to economic pessimism in Europe and North America. After all, the developing economies combined GDP now exceeds that of the advanced economies a situation that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.

Services already account for more output and employment than industry the Internet company Alibaba, for example, is empowering both consumers and smaller companies on a previously unimaginable scale and recent growth has been driven by domestic demand rather than net exports.

Natural disasters, like the tsunami in Asia and the recent hurricane in the southern part of the United States with so many victims and unimaginable destruction also demonstrate sufficiently the importance of international cooperation and the urgent need for human solidarity.

If we actually face, as Al Gore recently put it, an unimaginable calamity requiring large scale, preventative measures to protect human civilization as we know it, then no price would be too high to pay to stop global warming in its tracks.

Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.

We do know that some bacterial species that have earthly origin are capable of almost unimaginable extremes of temperature and other harsh changes in environment, including hard radiation strong enough and maintained long enough to crack the Pyrex vessels around the growing population of bacteria.

And it is unimaginable that any Prophet would hide something and whoever hides it , will bring what he hid with him on the Day of Resurrection then every soul will be paid in full for whatever they earned and they will not be wronged .

As a matter of fact, one now faces the previously unimaginable possibility that those two proposals for institutional reform, on the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council, could prosper without any corresponding developments on the composition and the working methods of the Security Council.

We had stories like The Seven League Boots the giant who had these boots, where, once you put them on, with every stride you could cover seven leagues, or 21 miles, a kind of travel completely unimaginable to people without that kind of energy at their disposal.

Whatever the explanation, the evidence is now accumulating that commercial fishing inflicts an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering. We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.