What was unthinkable has moved well past the thinkable and is now on the table for discussion.
For the first time since the early 1980s, global slump is a thinkable, even plausible, outcome (see article).
These devices will be tuned to the specific needs of its owner with an un-thinkable amount of computing resources at its disposal.
That would not be thinkable today: death cannot be imposed by the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals even for the worst atrocities.
But after other deals, such as Travelers' merger with Citibank, not to mention Chase's earlier mergers, not only is it thinkable, it's been done.
It does not address the fact that with Mubarak's ouster, a previously all-but unthinkable outbreak of hostilities with Egypt has now become eminently thinkable.
And they believe the politicians who have stoked the fires of hatred should be held accountable for whipping up a climate in which such terrorism is thinkable.
At this time of year, Mr. Jefferson would close his correspondence in words dry enough to be characteristic of him, yet somehow convivial enough to be thinkable in the mouth of Mr. Pickwick.
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So when he seeks to compete in a triathlon a sport whose popularity ranks far below that of, say, bass fishing his magnetism makes an unthinkable question suddenly thinkable: Does the number of extra enrollments he brings to an event outweigh the loss of certification by USA Triathlon?
Having a pope who is deeply committed to "tirelessly promoting justice and peace" is an absolute necessity in many parts of the world where "war has become the norm, and where even nuclear war is not only thinkable but a real possibility", says South Africa's Southern Cross said in an editorial.
The thing most wrong with present-day Republicanism is its passivity in the face of the economic crisis, its indifference to the economic troubles of the huge majority of the American population, and its blithe insistence that everything was fine for the typical American worker up until Inauguration Day 2009 or (at the outer bound of the thinkable) the financial crisis of the fall 2008.
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