The pair was believed to be romantically involved, and their story has captured the popular imagination.

This was an investment opportunity for someone that excited the imagination of people.

Some of the new services would stretch the imagination of previous ages.

It seems that the Diski is also capturing the imagination of people across South African shores.

So that's kind of what these tools are about, are how do we make the game play the player's imagination amplifier?

It must capture the imagination, address the public s anxieties, and generate realistic hope.

With a new generation emerges a new political imagination and poetic mottos written on walls.

So there is an urgent need to develop a political project that captures the imagination of the region s peoples and leaders.

LONDON US President Barack Obama caught the imagination of the world when he talked recently of a new Sputnik moment.

Success in space research can capture the imaginations of a whole generation of young Africans, he says.

In Tocqueville s imagination, at least, the old order s subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.

In the 1950 s, communism and the homosexual threat became wedded in the American public imagination.

Mariyah's beautiful writing, along with her most timely story breaks has captured the imagination of the readers, leaving them asking for more after each part.

Zaia s vivid imagination does not stop there he has now proposed that popular Italian TV series be dubbed or subtitled in the local dialect!

We must find a way to recapture the spirit of solidarity and shared values that once inspired the European imagination.

Central banks mystique, enigmatic policy instruments, and virtually unconstrained access to the printing press undoubtedly captivate some.

BERLIN Originally, the European Union was what psychologists call a fantastic object, a desirable goal that inspires people s imaginations.

When it was only an aspiration, the European Union was an immensely attractive idea that fired many people s imagination, including mine.

But we might also see an unpredictable turn, with a new political leader or movement suddenly capturing the popular imagination and sweeping aside the old arrangements.

So in some sense we want this to feel like an amplifier for the player's imagination, so that with a very small number of clicks a player can create something that they didn't really think was possible before.

PRAGUE For decades, the idea of the electric car has captured the imaginations of innovators including Henry Ford and Thomas Edison more than a century ago.

Obama s election the success of a member of a non white minority in the world s oldest democratic polity has seized the imagination of many Indians.

Its products, from iPhones to iPads to MacBooks, have captured consumers imaginations, remade markets, and earned the company and its shareholders huge sums of money.

Toledo claimed that he would send all dishonest officials to prison words that captured the imagination of Peruvians, who yearned to see criminal politicians brought to justice.

The observation that stem cells, as master cells, could give rise to a whole variety of different cell types heart cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells captured the attention of the media and the imagination of the public.

Such sentiments often spread and capture the public imagination at times of rapidly rising oil demand, sharp spikes in energy prices, and geo political uncertainty.

And I hope that the movement captures the imagination of progressives, who are equally disgusted with the corruption of the status quo, and who can agree on many thematic goals, even if their policy proposals might be different.

Nobody knows what vision of collective defense is to be implemented one needs a fertile imagination to imagine Belarusian paratroopers defending the Tajik border.

Yet many in the Maghreb policymakers and the public alike remain ambivalent about regional integration. So there is an urgent need to develop a political project that captures the imagination of the region s peoples and leaders.

To be sure, easing regulatory burdens is a longstanding leitmotif of the EU. Though the last two Commissions, led by José Manuel Barroso, espoused a commitment to rationalizing, clarifying, and compiling rules, little concrete action has been taken.

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

That idea captured the imagination of much of the elite of the developed world over the course of the 1990 s, and provided the moral rationale for the principal Western military interventions of the post Cold War period, from Bosnia to Iraq.

Barring an accident like the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, Germany is likely to do enough to hold the euro together, but the EU will become something very different from the open society that once fired people s imagination.

But we might also see an unpredictable turn, with a new political leader or movement suddenly capturing the popular imagination and sweeping aside the old arrangements. As we know from Nazi Germany and other cases, such movements do not always lead to a happy outcome.

In the populist imagination, both the very top and the very bottom of society are not really a part of it they are directly or indirectly supported by outside powers (think of pro European liberal elites in Central and Eastern Europe) more obviously, they are immigrants or minorities, like the Roma.