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Now it must try again to think the unthinkable, to leave the era of the H-bomb and enter the time of the human bomb.

The question on the table would have been unthinkable just a week before. Should Mr. Obama call for Mr. Mubarak to step down?

BT - game , do not cross the line take off , the consequences would be unthinkable, oh, let alone not remind you .

A hit like this at GM was almost unthinkable just a few years ago.

This sort of talk in public was unthinkable only a few months ago.

A class like this would have been unthinkable even just a few years ago. Sabri Eyigun is the Kurdish deputy rector of the university.

It was the kind of achievement that would have been unthinkable half a decade before in the mostly segregated music market.

And the situation he encountered had been unthinkable just a month or two earlier.

Angel's face as she let me upside down, how much I loved her, ah, but the situation unthinkable.

Just a week ago it would have been unthinkable to suggest that Muammar Qaddafi could be ousted from power.

The performer then does the unthinkable, by slamming the face of the watch down on the edge of a table.

Now France has put an air force behind its fine words, with military strikes against an Arab leader that would once have been unthinkable.

But if that's wrong, he said "the markets will experience a horrible shock. The unthinkable will have occurred. "

For me it would be unthinkable to see a great player playing for a great club not playing for his national team.

Ironically, discrimination against fat people is tolerated in a way that would be unthinkable for any other form of prejudice.

As the sun set over the city, families and bands of teenagers strolled along the river, an unthinkable activity only a couple of years ago.

Of course, this is purely hypothetical because, if Germany were to leave the euro, the political consequences would be unthinkable.

Most leaders therefore find currency devaluation so unthinkable that, at first glance, austerity seems to be the only choice.

They're part of a broader series of protests by citizens that would have been almost unthinkable a decade or two ago.

Newspapers such as the Muscat Daily have begun to cover the protests in a way that would have been unthinkable even a week ago.

lecturer says that the condition is cruel unthinkable, as she had been there for some times.

The answer might be found Thailand, where Nissan Motor Co. preparing to do what was once unthinkable: export small cars to Japan.

The US and China have other common interests, to a degree unthinkable just a few years ago.

All of a sudden, the ministers are willing to consider measures that, until a few days ago, were deemed unthinkable.

The personal freedoms that ordinary Chinese citizens now enjoy would have been totally unthinkable at the time of my first visit.

This kind of processing enables the creation of applications unthinkable just a few years ago.

It had achieved the unthinkable , toppling mighty General Motors from the top of the industry.

The intense competition of the gadget world makes that sort of leisurely pace unthinkable.

Leaving such a large number of people with no effective treatment would be an unthinkable tragedy.

"It's provided publicity we couldn't have dreamt of, " he said. In Australia, the film now had a cinema release "previously unthinkable" .

In an unthinkable display of treachery, it was a Royal Guardsman who was partially responsible for his demise.

So even today for some people it's unthinkable that maize, the divine food, should end up in a petrol tank.

We've got to make sure we give a top performance, because it would be unthinkable not to get through now.

ALLOWING a euro-zone country to leave the club is the unsayable (if not unthinkable) policy option for euro-zone politicians.

It would have been unthinkable for an adult, unmarried Jew to travel about teaching as a rabbi, as Jesus certainly did.

As for not wanting to work at all, it was unthinkable, for society was not used to loafers then.

Asked about fears that Brazil's democracy could be threatened by an extension of these trends, Lula says this is "unthinkable" .

And it has done so at a rate that would be unthinkable in any other country.

The bill may be imperfect, says Steve Tripoli of Ceres, a green business group, but having no bill at all would be unthinkable.

Such a project would have been unthinkable only two years ago.

Several forces are motivating China's foreign partners to strike global deals that would have been unthinkable a few years back.

One of the true marks of a leader, a consummate professional, is to do the unthinkable. To tackle the impossible. To touch the untouchable.

an expert on the Chinese media said that such attacks against the president, the premier or other top-rank officials would be unthinkable.

The financial system is stabilizing largely as a result of the Fed's policies, and the risks of a relapse are unthinkable.

But with him, just because we occasionally have sex, it's somehow unthinkable that they should meet.

Failure to this company is becoming nothing but unthinkable.

Even with all the lip service being paid to the mass struggles rocking the region right now, that would be unthinkable.

For these reasons, any default on the legal debt obligations of the United States is unthinkable and must be avoided.

That would be politically unthinkable, and most politicians in Rome duly refuse to think about it.

What's more, Fred has done the unthinkable -- he has described venture economics in the context of his own fund's specific economic terms.

It was almost unthinkable that you would risk temporarily losing your connection with your Higher Self, your Godself.

Mind you, if you're like me and such a resolution would be unthinkable - it's simply yet another good excuse to keep munching.

James Franco stars as a young outdoorsman who makes an unthinkable decision when his arm is trapped by a boulder in a remote canyon.

Politicians now compete to propose swingeing regulations that would have been unthinkable just two years ago.

Nativity plays or carol concerts in state primary schools are unthinkable, as would be the swearing-in of presidents over the Bible.

The break-up of the single currency, once dismissed as unthinkable, is now openly spoken of as a possibility.

It made serious impact to economy and polity, should be attracted special attention, otherwise its consequence would be unthinkable.

For home mortgages to be backed by government guarantees would be unthinkable anywhere in Asia or Europe.

Just 25 years ago a foreigner dating a Chinese citizen would have been unthinkable and was a rare, eyebrow-raising event. Now it's common.

If Europe's governments fail to put their bickering aside, they risk triggering the unthinkable: the implosion of the euro.

I got to the river that was frozen, crossing dressed in civilian clothes was completly unthinkable.

As for not wanting to work at all, it is unthinkable, for society is not used to loafers .

Incest remains one of society's last taboos and is an unthinkable concept to most people.

Computers and internet system help mankind in information technology to a great extent. Today life without science is unthinkable.

The two crises have parallels: for both Belgium and the single currency, breaking up is no longer unthinkable.

None of this means that an attack on Iran's nuclear programme is unthinkable. But there is a dangerous lightness to the current discussion.

On a cold winter day in Michigan, a woman in labor was being rushed to the hospital when the unthinkable happened.

The idea of a state-owned firm attempting one seemed unthinkable until recently.

That may not sound like much, but such operations would have been unthinkable to pacifist Japan as recently as a decade ago.

Policymaking also suffers if governments are not urged to think the unthinkable and held regularly to account by external scrutiny.

The unthinkable massacre in Connecticut adds to what is now the worst year of mass shootings in modern US history.

A break-up of the euro may not be unthinkable, but it would certainly be damaging, painful and very expensive.

At the time it was a radical idea that was almost unthinkable: one person, one computer.

"This kind of drop in bonuses would be unthinkable in normal times, " said Naoki Murakami, chief economist at Monex Securities.

England was staring at an unthinkable home defeat to Greece back in 2001, which would have meant that World Cup qualification was uncertain.

Arab notions of modesty make it unthinkable that the police or guards would search women.

Dare governments think the unthinkable about changing central bank mandates, to help ease debt burdens?

A full-blown military conflict with Ukraine seems unlikely but is no longer unthinkable.

I would have said they were are living in Mars or Neptune or somewhere outside Earth because this was unthinkable.

Any genuinely predictive model must be equipped with the capability to generate "unthinkable" scenarios.

However, an increasing number of beholders are embracing a practice once held to be vile and unthinkable to their kind.

A few months ago such a policy was unthinkable, because of the risk of power shortages.

How could this person I trusted completely have done something so unthinkable that I couldn't -- and still can't -- wrap my head around it?

That may include doing the unthinkable for Honda: recruiting some talented outsiders to take a fresh look at the market and its customers.

But if Lehman Brothers' collapse was unthinkable, they now face the unimaginable: fears of a sovereign-debt crisis in the euro zone.

Yet until quite recently the notion that Germany would be beset by the global downturn seemed unthinkable.

Apparently, the idea that humans in power might be Service-to-Self and needing no help from an alien agenda is unthinkable.

This would have been unthinkable during drier days, but the flood waters have made this bizarre travel route possible.

The Smangus people who have been charged with this unthinkable crime should not only deny these charges, but defend their beliefs as well.

German wine without rules is of course unthinkable but these seem awfully inflexible to me.

And rushing to accommodate Moscow while Russian troops are still occupying parts of Georgia proper is unthinkable.

But even to hint that the pressures of the job might be telling on health and general well-being is unthinkable.

Chinese bank buying into the largest banking merger in history would have been unthinkable until recently.

This place is going to be unthinkable without you.

Fourth, the political class is going to attempt the politically unthinkable.

For my generation it seems almost unthinkable that we could return to an era of armed conflict between the world's main powers .

Traders are scrambling to hedge their exposure to the country and its banks just in case the unthinkable happens sooner rather than later.

Finally, the unthinkable happened - a large iron ball began to slowly sway.

It wAS next to unthinkable that the hunchback came down to the rope AS quickly AS a monkey.

This process feeds back on itself until the idea of the community without the Wiki becomes quite literally unthinkable.

The Death Star's prime weapon unleashed unthinkable levels of raw energy capable of tearing apart entire worlds.

Living without a mobile phone was also unthinkable for 97 percent of those questioned in that age range.

And yet what is unthinkable for 98 percent of citizens is mandatory for the tiny minority.

If the "unthinkable" is a freak freak male female, then the film is related to the freak family, but they embark on an unusual journey.

In Liverpool my quality of life has improved. I can do things here that would be unthinkable in Madrid.

The unthinkable has happened: Kilroy has started a national debate on an issue of fundamental importance.

It seems unthinkable that you (should) make such a mistake.

In others like the United Kingdom, the idea is unthinkable.

If the last few years taught us anything, it's that the unthinkable has an uncanny knack of happening.

Rather than insisting that the break-up of the euro is unthinkable, Europe's leaders need to start planning for it.

If the last few years taught us anything, it's that the unthinkable has an uncanny knack of happening.

Rather than insisting that the break-up of the euro is unthinkable, Europe's leaders need to start planning for it.

DECADE ago it would have been unthinkable, but on June 12th, Congress passed the toughest anti-tobacco bill in American history.

It is time to prepare for the unthinkable: there is now a significant probability the euro will not survive in its current form.

Crisis has forced us to think what, not so long ago, was unthinkable.

The threat of default, previously unthinkable, is now a bargaining chip in Washington.

So Horava did the unthinkable and amended Einstein's equations in a way that removed Lorentz symmetry.

Modern petroleum exploration is unthinkable without the aid of magnetism, gravity, and seismic surveys in finding potential petroleum traps.

Civilized life for the fifth century is unthinkable without the polis, a bounded space dividing the human world from the wild.

It's unthinkable that the company went bankrupt.

Civilized life for the fifth century is unthinkable without the polis, a bounded space dividing the human world from the wild.

It's unthinkable that the company went bankrupt.

This left a lasting mark on me, turning a disaster of unthinkable proportions into an exhilarating adventure.

Nor are they the only rivals thinking the previously unthinkable.

It's unthinkable that the boy should sing such a beautiful song.

Until now, for France's media establishment, that had been unthinkable.

But mistakes occur in times of stress. That is why some are beginning to contemplate the unthinkable.

Even if some local property markets tanked, they figured, a nationwide bust was almost unthinkable.

Until recently, the notion of anyone reinsuring Equitas would have been unthinkable.

Authorities in New York say they've disrupted a terror plot that could have caused unthinkable devastation.

Until recently, the notion of anyone reinsuring Equitas would have been unthinkable.

Authorities in New York say they've disrupted a terror plot that could have caused unthinkable devastation.

She was devastated, thinking he had actually done the unthinkable.

Lunacy, bankruptcy, suicide and other unthinkable fates sooner or later afflict the noblest of clans with an undertow of gloom.

Given all of the once-unthinkable events that had already happened, it was hard to know what might come next.

As the catastrophe unfolded, people were forced to resort to previously unthinkable acts to survive.

If you slack off, it is irresponsible to evade, the consequences would be unthinkable, not envisaged.

Some disillusioned Indonesians even contemplate the unthinkable: a U-turn, back to more central control.

This is an urgent situation. Please deal with it without further ado or the consequences are unthinkable.

What needs to be stressed is that if we do not maintain the currency linking system, the economic consequences will be unthinkable.

What needs to be stressed is that if we do not maintain the currency linking system, the economic consequences will be unthinkable.

As the crisis drags on, a break-up of Belgium looks less unthinkable than it was.

The tabloid press is outraged, running images of Spitfire fighters over Dover's white cliffs, and calling a foreign owner "unthinkable" .

Such a casual attitude to the workplace would have been unthinkable in China just five years ago.

Breaking up the euro is not unthinkable, just very costly.

In fact, without the open source-licensed GDAL, most modern geodata viewers would be unthinkable.

Otherwise, it may be time to think the unthinkable.

Swimming does good to our health, but to swim on such a cold day is unthinkable.

For China's sports bureaucracy, and an older generation of Chinese sports fans, this re-think is unthinkable.

WHAT happened in West Virginia would have been unthinkable in most other countries.

WHAT happened in West Virginia would have been unthinkable in most other countries.

That was unthinkable, I was assured. Taiwan was an inalienable part of China.

In the 1970s, when both Peru and Chile were ruled by military governments, they came close to war. That now seems unthinkable.

Asked why not, the mayor's office told Mr Sorman it was unthinkable that a Shanghai woman would marry a "foreigner" .

A decade ago, a starlet toting around a portable computer would have been unthinkable.

The sando aqua monster's unthinkable size and rare appearances have fostered many legends and myths regarding its origins and habits.

But dozens of lesser trades have seen players change clubs for sums unthinkable a few short years ago.

A return to the gold standard remains unlikely, but it's no longer unthinkable.

Given fears of sovereign defaults in Europe, the unthinkable is already imaginable.

But the thought experiment may be useful in preventing the unthinkable from actually happening.

But the thought experiment may be useful in preventing the unthinkable from actually happening.

So is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.

Such a feat is utterly unthinkable!

Which is why, for some scientists, it is almost unthinkable that D. melanogaster may have to be given a new name.

In recent weeks, some market commentators have asked a question that would once have seemed unthinkable.

Such a move is unthinkable in all but the very long term.

Conflict relations engendered by the division of labour as constituting a source of social change was simply unthinkable.

Certainly, conflict between the members of the EU is unthinkable.

It meant, as historian Carl Mitcham says, that "mass production was unthinkable to the classical mind, and not just for technical reasons. "

When the unthinkable happens, it may seem impossible to believe that anything can overcome the emotional scars.

It meant, as historian Carl Mitcham says, that "mass production was unthinkable to the classical mind, and not just for technical reasons. "

When the unthinkable happens, it may seem impossible to believe that anything can overcome the emotional scars.

Some minor bloodletting today could spare that child unthinkable degrees of suffering tomorrow.

It might seem almost unthinkable to propose a return to a gold standard, in other words.

Making religion a requirement of public service was unthinkable and illegal from the first days of the republic.

But that does not diminish the utility of Kissinger's thinking the unthinkable.

and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder.

Indeed, the idea of going on strike for political reasons is unthinkable among all public-sector workers in Germany.

Yet if leaving the euro is unthinkable, the risk of default by a country that stays in has clearly gone up.

They take risks, go through many unthinkable difficulties, and making painful decisions.

They take risks, go through many unthinkable difficulties, and making painful decisions.

What is even more unthinkable is that the Athens Olympics last issued 12 million, not been able to meet the demand.

The unthinkable has happened, I really have no idea how to describe how I feel now.

It would have been unthinkable not long before.

For many, life without their mobile phone would be unthinkable.

He has been charged with money laundering, something most of his friends say is unthinkable.

"In the event the unthinkable happens, we will be able to respond within 24 hours of the incident. "

Bradesco, a large bank, has started to offer 30-year mortgages, something that would have been unthinkable a short time ago.

Since then, in the words of Mary D. Garrard, she has suffered a scholarly neglect that is almost unthinkable for an artist of her caliber.

It would have been unthinkable for Mr Sarkozy's predecessor to have vacationed in America.

have no choice but to be guilty; God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Such legal changes would have been unthinkable in the region a decade ago.

Their premise was once politically unthinkable: before Detroit can thrive, it must shrink.

One hundred years ago the idea of sexual politics would have been unthinkable.

That may be an extreme example, but it is unthinkable at an elite school.

It seems unthinkable in the 21st century that pregnant women are being denied loans on the basis of their child-bearing capacity.

The debt crisis is forcing the 17 euro-zone countries to pool economic sovereignty to a degree that was unthinkable before.

Where I come from, it is unthinkable, even in the most crowded parts of the country.

What remains seems unthinkable: Greece leaving the euro. But when you've ruled out everything else, that's what's left.

Sharing being unthinkable, they'd devised financial arrangements so elaborate they could trigger war at any time.

This has prompted the unthinkable: some restaurants are now charging extra for kimchi.

I must say that sitting on a foreign nation's bench is unthinkable for someone who has won the World Cup.

Both of these "unthinkable" events occurred in 2008.

Traianos Dellas could be on the verge of the unthinkable by swapping Roma for city rivals Lazio.

The social movement itself is unthinkable and there cannot be the development of history apart from the masses.

He leaned up against the stage and asked the unthinkable: Should he kill the player?

In fact, you can use the law to reduce your risk, eliminate uncertainty, and plan for the unthinkable.

An unthinkable amount of money.

The idea of sending tanks to stem velvet revolutions in Eastern Europe was unthinkable.

Less than two weeks ago the idea had seemed unthinkable.

We've been dependent on our automobile for so many years that giving it up was unthinkable.

From that point of view, an apology or compensation is unthinkable.

Does an artware have the value, is not looked that it is big enough, enough dazzles, enough unthinkable.

It is already unthinkable to start out writing a large application these days without some kind of DI library support.

But as a responsible caring parent, you need to plan for the unthinkable.

Raising taxes was politically unthinkable.

It's unthinkable that lawmakers would allow that to go through.

Some things are just unthinkable or you are better off not thinking about them more than you need to (inform yourself but don't obsess).

It is unthinkable to be prevented from doing that because of a work visa quota.

This almost-unthinkable result is a big blow to Angela Merkel, the chancellor and CDU leader, who has lost the party's crown jewel.

That he shall be a dishonest man is unthinkable.

Today war between Germany and France had. . . . is unthinkable.

But letting a big retail bank close its doors completely is still unthinkable.

It now produces one model in Thailand and exports it to Japan, a move that was once unthinkable.

For most, the thought is unthinkable; the technology is simply too outdated.

Some measures proposed to calm the markets seem unthinkable to many Germans.

Think of what's possible today that was unthinkable two decades ago.

As MrChenpoints out, influencing government policy was unthinkable two decades ago.

For most, not using make-up is unthinkable, and it is generally considered a No-Go to show up in public with no make-up on.

I had just left LSU's campus, and I was headed to interstate I-10, then the unthinkable happened.

In pop and rock, a band without a charismatic singer is more or less unthinkable.

But, in Germany andelsewhere, once unthinkable notions are now being entertained.

Indeed, the creation of a big bail-out fund was meant to make default unthinkable.

Already, half of China's over-60s live alone, a situation unthinkable before, when four generations would live under one roof.

A breakup of the euro is very nearly unthinkable, as a sheer matter of practicality.

Eating ? sh eyeballs is unthinkable to me!

But every day, the unthinkable seems to be happening in the news world.

This was unthinkable even three weeks ago.

But putting a giant bank through bankruptcy is unthinkable.

Now think of it, that 6: 00 on the Morning Reading is simply unthinkable.

Thus, to achieve zero inventory is almost unthinkable.

Investors in these bonds are compensated for the risk of inflation by yields of just 6. 9%, a once unthinkable prospect.

Conjuring the language of war, he is reported as saying: "Retreat is unthinkable. "

A Greek exit from the euro is seen in Germany as impractical, if not unthinkable.

Second, the dramatic industry downturn means deals can be done on terms unthinkable in the good times.

Yet we purchase insurance to cover us in case the unthinkable happens.

When the unthinkable suddenly becomes the inevitable, without pausing in the realm of the improbable, then you have contagion.

The idea of women in the business world was unthinkable.

The GM CEO told Congress a bankruptcy filing was unthinkable.

The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkable good things can happen, even late in the game.