Hirschman believed that the possibilities for economic development are not nearly as constrained as comprehensive theories would lead us to believe.

Financial and industrial managers are compensated at a level that most of the world would struggle even to imagine.

To perform any conceivable computation it is sufficient to have NAND gates.

Literary critic Fredric Jameson says that our advertising...is fed by postmodernism in all the arts, and is inconceivable without it.

The global road safety crisis is a modern epidemic of extraordinary proportions.

Born out of the horrors of the Second World War, it was envisioned as a temple of tolerance and harmony.

It's a fantastic prospect that this object of great mathematical beauty could describe the truth of particle interactions at the smallest scales imaginable.

Today, with the benefit of time, we can evaluate whether the accord truly marks the historic turning point President Johnson hoped for.

Two critical departments of National Security IMPLICATED IN ONE OF IF NOT the WORST CRIME IMAGINED, HUMAN TRAFFICKING!

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

The dollar has been knocked off its pedestal by the crisis, but any conceivable substitute is obviously even more flawed and more problematical.

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

Poverty indicators based on indigenous peoples' own perception of their situation and experiences should be developed, jointly with indigenous peoples.

In 2002 researchers at the University of Tartu studied gender roles reflected in school textbooks.

At a time when the world is emphasizing the importance of diversity and tolerance, it is effrontery to suggest that corporations should standardize their notion of how they wish to promote good in the world.

One possible approach is purely practical, comparing democracy with all other conceivable alternatives.

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

The shadow of such fragmentation, with its unfathomable perils, now hangs over Iraq.

Moroccan blogger Mouad wishes to start a cross cultural dialogue about the cartoons and the stereotypes they depict Other topics was treated by the 2 special Morocco episodes such as the naive nostalgia of some in Arabophone world to reconquest the Andalus in a way that it could be considered as against Arabs Muslims if makers weren't Kuwaitis.

The current skewed power structures in the world body cannot be condoned on any conceivable grounds of democracy.

For many observers, populism is unthinkable without a strong, direct bond between an anti establishment leader and citizens who feel neglected by mainstream political parties.

To overcome a crisis requires doing things that previously were barely conceivable, let alone feasible.

There are two reasons why, until now, the second option leaving the monetary union has been unthinkable.

On the night of 25 to 26 February 1992, armed forces of the Republic of Armenia committed an unthinkable, brutal crime.

Obama s election has demonstrated that things are still achievable in the US that remain unthinkable elsewhere.

The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone, cannot be imagined. They certainly cannot be described.

So it is time to consider alternatives that until recently would have been inconceivable.

A compromise should be sought between the structure of the report as envisaged by the third inter committee meeting and Mr. Amor's proposals.

Most countries fabricate at least some of their history or they simply whitewash the bits that do not match their heroic idea of themselves.

And so the speed of the adoption of things is just going to become that much more rapid, in a way that we just totally cannot conceive, when you get it to 6.3 billion and the growth in the world's population.

PARIS Dire conditions can permit what was once unthinkable to push its way into public debate.

The once unified opposition to the Mubarak regime has become fragmented, with each faction defending its own interests and advocating its own version of the revolution s goals.

Iran, depicted by the Bush administration as a major threat, is a military dwarf, spending 6.6 billion on its military.

Parties mentioned perceived changes in water availability, and the need for redistribution of available supplies between agricultural and industrial uses, as an adaptation option.

You can go to places an hour away, less, from this room, just down the road, which need that, which need radicalism of a kind that we haven't imagined.

Since the outbreak of this crisis, they have repeatedly been forced by events to push European integration further than they had initially envisaged.

In short, while it is perfectly rational for the West to want Russia as a partner, Russia considers the US and the EU enemies. The West can offer no conceivable partnership terms that Putin would accept.

Obama s election has demonstrated that things are still achievable in the US that remain unthinkable elsewhere. As long as this is so, the US, as primus inter pares , can still be looked up to as the defender of our freedoms.

The consequences are already visible to avoid a complete meltdown, Cyprus has been forced to introduce capital controls which everyone had thought were illegal and unthinkable within the eurozone.

To date one of the weaknesses of education systems that fail to meet the needs of indigenous peoples has been the lack of involvement of indigenous peoples in the designing of education programmes and policies from the outset.

For even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

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.

Last year, China signed 14 bilateral agreements with Cambodia, totaling 1.2 billion, to finance every conceivable item, from irrigation canals to uniforms for the Cambodian military.

The historical irony is that an environment of crisis is forcing Europeans to make choices that they did not want to envisage, much less confront, in quieter times.

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