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It is unimaginable what will happen next.

It's something that was unimaginable to people then.

It gives us an energy return that's unimaginable, historically.

Yet, the tsunami was a whole new order of the unimaginable .

The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.

And I would say that, at the moment, the alternative is unimaginable.

Well, Worldchanging you might think of as being a bit of a news service for the unimaginable future.

You know, so on the one hand we have the unthinkable on the other hand we have the unimaginable.

These benefits range from communications to search and rescue to navigation and weather forecasting capabilities unimaginable to previous generations.

In addition, millions of people are suffering unimaginable physical and psychological trauma that will take a long time to heal.

So the stakes in righting the world economy could not be higher. Mismanage the process, and the consequences could be unimaginable.

And the unimaginable happened it became the first car to ever return from a DARPA Grand Challenge, winning Stanford 2 million dollars.

Continents and cultures are now cabled together and bound by trade and services in a way that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

Perhaps the world has even become accustomed to reports of losses of human life and the unimaginable scale of the disasters that have been afflicting our planet since December 2004.

Huge potential sources of scientific information yet to be gathered, much of our environmental stability and new kinds of pharmaceuticals and new products of unimaginable strength and value all thrown away.

Such a scenario, unimaginable a few months ago, may already be shaping up as the Ukraine drama moves to its endgame. The Putin era may be over sooner than we think.

I spent, you know, several weeks with all these actors, producers, and the problems they have to go through are unimaginable for, you know, a Westerner, a filmmaker who works in America or in Europe.

NEW YORK We are all Keynesians now. Even the right in the United States has joined the Keynesian camp with unbridled enthusiasm and on a scale that at one time would have been truly unimaginable.

Not since the end of World War I have Arab countries undergone such a momentous upheaval. Conflict has broken out in no fewer than nine Arab countries, and the carnage has reached unimaginable levels of inhumanity.

Of course, Japan did occupy China, committed unimaginable savagery, and has since paid no reparations or apologized in a convincing way. Nevertheless, what benefit does China gain by continuing to raise these issues 60 years later?

That possibility alone should be sufficient to spur the IMF, the United States, and, above all, the EU to act. In the grey and depressing days of the Soviet Union, an independent and democratic Ukraine seemed unimaginable.

Rapid progress in the emerging economies has contributed to economic pessimism in Europe and North America. After all, the developing economies combined GDP now exceeds that of the advanced economies a situation that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.

Recent developments have put the country on a path that would have been unimaginable until very recently. For the first time in Ukraine s post Soviet history, it has a government that is willing and able to carry out real reform.

Natural disasters, like the tsunami in Asia and the recent hurricane in the southern part of the United States with so many victims and unimaginable destruction also demonstrate sufficiently the importance of international cooperation and the urgent need for human solidarity.

We do know that some bacterial species that have earthly origin are capable of almost unimaginable extremes of temperature and other harsh changes in environment, including hard radiation strong enough and maintained long enough to crack the Pyrex vessels around the growing population of bacteria.

Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.

Already, the end of the Cold War and painstaking diplomacy have brought the US India relationship to a point unimaginable just ten years ago. Both governments now understand each other better, and the two countries interests are more aligned than they have ever been.

And it is unimaginable that any Prophet would hide something and whoever hides it, will bring what he hid with him on the Day of Resurrection then every soul will be paid in full for whatever they earned and they will not be wronged.

And it is unimaginable that any Prophet would hide something and whoever hides it, will bring what he hid with him on the Day of Resurrection then every soul will be paid in full for whatever they earned and they will not be wronged.

As a matter of fact, one now faces the previously unimaginable possibility that those two proposals for institutional reform, on the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council, could prosper without any corresponding developments on the composition and the working methods of the Security Council.

We had stories like The Seven League Boots the giant who had these boots, where, once you put them on, with every stride you could cover seven leagues, or 21 miles, a kind of travel completely unimaginable to people without that kind of energy at their disposal.

Whatever the explanation, the evidence is now accumulating that commercial fishing inflicts an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering. We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

One hopes that the Indian government will heed Subramanian s account of how China grew through exports of manufactured goods and associated productivity improvements. China also became integrated into global supply chains producing things for companies elsewhere on a previously unimaginable scale, and Chinese managers learned how to make better products.

California is the most diverse US state more than half of its 37 million people are non white. For believers in the benefits of diversity, California represents the largest social experiment in human history, bringing people of different backgrounds together in a way unimaginable in, say, Germany, China, or Brazil.

A comprehensive settlement of the Kurdish issue within Turkey will be key to the country s stability and the future of its bid for accession to the European Union. Otherwise, one can envisage scenarios in which the forces of disintegration now roiling the neighboring Levant actually spread into Turkey itself, with unimaginable consequences.

Most important, economic outcomes are becoming increasingly aligned with the authorities goals. Services already account for more output and employment than industry the Internet company Alibaba, for example, is empowering both consumers and smaller companies on a previously unimaginable scale and recent growth has been driven by domestic demand rather than net exports.

And it was an environmental improvement, because, for instance, in 1903 they outlawed horses and buggies in downtown Manhattan, because you can imagine what the roads look like when you have a million horses, and a million of them urinating and doing other things, and the typhoid and other problems created were almost unimaginable.

Energy matters have already led to an unprecedented warming in relations between countries such as Israel and Cyprus in recent years, with an agreement signed in 2010 formally delimiting these states respective exclusive economic zones. It is not unimaginable that this type of cooperation could be extended to include other neighbors around the Levant.

WARSAW The agreement by the American and Russian presidents to renew strategic arms reductions has revived hope for the global abolition of nuclear arms. The urgency can hardly be exaggerated nuclear weapons may come into the possession of states that might use them, as well as of stateless terrorists creating new threats of unimaginable proportion.

Mr. Kim Sam hoon (Republic of Korea) We are gathered here today to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a monumental global conflict that wrought tremendous havoc on an unimaginable scale and that claimed some 50 million lives, etching a legacy of pain and suffering on our collective memories forever after.

As I learned more about Mandela, I wondered how he had achieved the unimaginable, overcoming a 27 year ordeal to become the leader of Africa s largest economy. And, just when I thought that he had already made his mark on history, he shocked the world by announcing that he would not seek re election after the end of his first term in 1999.

But let us imagine what was unimaginable even a few months ago a world where the present diminution of conflict holds, and where discussions between Israel and Palestine arrive at a mutually acceptable recognition of each state s sovereignty. To be sure, this is possible only if the United States pushes Israel much harder than it has so far to give Palestine viable borders.

And it is childhood cancer that has the greatest potential to catapult a remote fear into an unimaginable reality. As a pediatric oncologist, having cared for children with cancer and their families for more than 25 years, I know that only a parent who has confronted such a diagnosis truly understands the depth of this fear, as it touches the core of who we are as parents.

Reconciling in the first two decades following the Nazi Occupation of France, these countries leaders understood that their security and economic ties were far too important to their citizens wellbeing to allow the old hatreds to fester. They knew that the unimaginable violence of WWII was a direct result of the antagonisms that had festered since the Napoleonic Wars and that were allowed to persist after 1918.