One would think only death could keep her...

An absurd expectation, one might think.

So someone could conceptually perceive that as a mistake.

Not a huge problem, one might have thought.

America is much more resilient than its critics believe.

One can also imagine that he did it to secure the women s vote.

You might imagine that people could choose the right light bulbs for themselves.

Today, many people might think that all of this is water under the bridge.

That vision is more plausible than one might think.

But the establishment of a new world order is not as painless as one might imagine.

No sound monetarist thinks those numbers predict current inflation.

Yet nobody thought that that election had changed the course of Europe.

The links between Europe and America are, frankly, much more complex than the advocates of decoupling appreciate.

Mexico s economic problems might be similarly more intractable than many commentators seem to believe.

One might have expected the Americans to know better than to bet all on a man who might be gone tomorrow.

Who ever could have imagined

She wondered whether he had already participated in the run up to the dialogue, and asked how he envisaged his participation.

One could imagine that a spell of unemployment might be a time of reflection, reestablishment of personal connections, and getting back to fundamental values.

A fan poses with Yonit Levi

Contrary to what one would imagine, the Kyoto Protocol has not prompted this research.

This naming and shaming approach can be more effective than most observers think.

One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.

Given this, one might think the US government would be actively courting Chinese investment, not scaring it away unnecessarily.

One cannot imagine India or Brazil wanting to be part of any such a combination.

In 1977, few people would have predicted that Havel would one day preside over a Czech democracy.

He mentally visualizes your field of fire.

Why should the rest of the world think that conflict with a larger and more resolute enemy would be handled any more capably?

What on earth made him dream up such a fantastic swindle?

This fella figures he's got a plan so clever that it doesn't make any difference what you do.

The ones who've been playing devil with my fishing boats.

At other times, like Stalin, he believes that Russia s power requires a strong hand what he calls his dictatorship of law.

As currently conceived, however, the programme has shortcomings, we believe.

It would have made her angry to think people imagined she was her little girl.

The optimist may reply that the pessimist s imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up.

Eric Sanderson pictures New York before the City

The West imagines that religion is the central issue in Afghanistan.

How can the Special Rapporteur imagine that such witnesses are genuine and reliable?

Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker!

It's going to happen a lot sooner than people imagine.

Lincoln could never have imagined how far his reputation would reach.

But how does the European Union envisage using these investments to shape its future?

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Most people imagine orphanages as a benign environment that care for children.

But the Israelis never believed they would have to give back all the land, while the Arabs did not think they might have to offer all the peace.