Most Palestinians still find it hard to conceive of a durable peace with Israel.

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But it is not hard to conceive of circumstances that could lead to a wider protest movement.

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It is hard to conceive of a way to replace that much energy with less dramatic alternatives.

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It's hard to conceive of Mark Rothko making a commercial, for instance, or being asked to appear in one.

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The main theme echoed by politicians is that the current economic climate makes it hard to conceive of any more taxpayers' money being diverted to fund political parties.

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But Russian authority is now so remote a memory that, even if Chechnya proves unviable as an independent state, it is hard to conceive of it ever again being subject to Moscow.

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So why is it to so hard for them to conceive of a situation where someone dreams of earning more money a few years from now than they earn today.

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Nonetheless, it is hard to conceive that margins should narrow at a time of global business expansion, says Applegate.

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If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

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As consistent as Pujols has been to this point in his career, it is hard to conceive that his productivity would remain at its currently high levels throughout the entirety of the next decade.

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