How To Use Inconceivable In A Sentence
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That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
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The idea that they might not win was inconceivable to them.
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The board will demand specialist medical advice that this is not the case, otherwise it is inconceivable that he will be relicensed.
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A few years ago a car fuelled by solar energy would have been inconceivable.
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It once seemed inconceivable to everyone that men should travel to the moon.
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Darwin's keen analogy of the fertilization of plants by pollen renders development from without conceivable, but as there are no insects to convey gemmules to their destination, each kind of gemmule would have to be exceedingly numerous and easily attracted from amongst an inconceivable number of other gemmules.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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Consequently my family pride is something inconceivable.
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Having moved from Anfield to Elland Road, it is inconceivable that Fowler will be left behind if fully fit and back in form.
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It seems inconceivable that a club of Wasps' stature could be allowed to fold.
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It seems inconceivable that a club of Wasps' stature could be allowed to fold.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. Christopher Hitchens
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery
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It seems inconceivable that the accident could have happened so quickly.
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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And it was inconceivable that she would have gone - the Charlotte Meiner I knew would have clobbered you over the head with a marline spike.
When Eight Bells Toll
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It is inconceivable to me how a person can add syllables to the word "colored," yet Howard found a way.
Rodney Barnes: Red Tails
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That kind of financial irregularity would be inconceivable today, even in Motherwell and Wishaw.
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I am not asking you to be happy about losing your job, which ofcourse is inconceivable, I am asking you why your job should be protected when it could just as well have been lost to a Canadian in North America, or an American who has travelled to India or an Indian who has never stepped out of his country.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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She appeared amongst her companions, and vanished from them, with a degree of rapidity which was inconceivable and hedges, treillage, or such like obstructions, were surmounted by her in a manner which the most vigilant eye could not detect; for, after being observed on the side of the barrier at one instant, in another she was beheld close beside the spectator.
Anne of Geierstein
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It was inconceivable that they simply didn't know.
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Existence is always infinitely indebted to this absolute antecedence, this inconceivable origin.
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Such an exodus seems almost inconceivable.
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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How this income opportunity was missed seems inconceivable now, but there you go.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were a hundred or so of Susquehanna raftsmen, grouped about in the ticket office, in every, conceivable position, and dressed in all kinds of inconceivable fashions, the favourite style appearing to be a slouched hat, rough flannel shirt of gorgeous pattern, and bedtick trousers, tucked into high boots.
A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
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And it is inconceivable that this is what the original creators of copyright law had in mind.
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It forms a fascinating conspectus of a modern saga, the return of the Jews, after inconceivable sufferings, to their ancient homeland.
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It is inconceivable that this same scenario could have played itself out as it did with a group of unrelated individuals.
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It's almost inconceivable that a handicapped girl is very independent and lives all alone.
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It is inconceivable, however, that the raids would have gone ahead without official authorisation.
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In the thirteenth century context, liability for marital rape would clearly have been quite inconceivable.
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Some philosophers believe there is only one thing unending beyond death and the inconceivable infiniteness of the universe.
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It takes a terrible attack or something almost inconceivable in defence to lose with numbers.
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The idea that he might just conceivably stand for values which are socially destructive is of course inconceivable.
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Colour is inconceivable to people born blind.
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Because the notion of it still being broken was simply inconceivable.
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And it is not inconceivable that the still more unstable emanation from the matter named actinium by Debierne and emanium by Giesel may be found to possess an even higher atomic weight than uranium; judging by the phenomenon of brilliant illumination when a preparation of emanium is held above a screen of zinc sulphide, the impression is formed that a very dense matter is falling down on the screen.
Sir William Ramsay - Nobel Lecture
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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Who that utters the word "zounds," imagines that he is speaking of such awful and inconceivable things as "God's wounds," though literally he is doing so?
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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Who, after a great disaster, has not looked back with wonder at his inconceivable obtuseness of understanding, that could not perceive the many minute threads with which fate weaves the inextricable net of our destinies, until he is inmeshed completely in it?
The Last Man
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It is inconceivable that these powers could be applied to a demonstration.
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Consequently my family pride is something inconceivable.
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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The idea has gone from inconceivable to quite possible at dizzying speed.
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If, indeed, we supposed every "idolator" to have received definite religious teaching, analogous to that with which we ourselves were imbued in youth, we might well find his attitude inconceivable.
Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern
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Therefore, "the Conditioned is that which is alone conceivable or cogitable; the Unconditioned, that which is inconceivable or incogitable.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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The rain had made the town look ten times dirtier than it was, which was inconceivable.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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The idea that they might not win was inconceivable to them.
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
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Among the major parties abolition of faith schools is inconceivable because they are too popular.
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But hieroglyphics and histories which seem to pass the bounds of belief I call inconceivable; yet even among these last there are many which our method enables us to investigate, and to discover the meaning of their narrator.
Theologico-Political Treatise
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He said: 'It seems inconceivable that any competent planning officer could recommend this.
The Sun
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This is inconceivable: New Delhi's Bhagirath Palace and certain markets in Agra and Aligarh are known to me, a foreigner, as major locations of the fake drugs trade.
Delhi's Fake Drug Whitewash
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This would have been almost inconceivable two generations ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we are pure materialists and imagine every memory in our possession as something stamped, in some wholly incomprehensible manner, on some cell of our brain and looked at there, by some wholly inconceivable agency, when we sit down to think of past days, then we must look on the germ, under the "mnemic" or memory theory as consisting of fragments each of them impressed with the
Science and Morals and Other Essays
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Rodents and four Insectivora, including a shrew-mouse and six squirrels, whose unaided passage over twenty miles of sea is even more inconceivable than that of the larger animals.
The Malay Archipelago
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Harrington was throwing in inconceivable flourishes, while Malemute Kid, utterly abandoned, had seized the broom and was executing mad gyrations on his own account.
The Wife of a King
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For Ted these were periods of inconceivable joy and quietude.
BEHINDLINGS
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TARP will be a massive loser. it is virtually inconceivable that it could even break even. also, the % of assets failing figure is not really an apples to apples comparison as a great many large institutions are effectively wards of the state at the moment. (citi, bofa, gmac, aig, …) nom de guerre: mmmm. and these same "unfailed" banks are the same ones holding the bag on hundreds if not thousands of abandoned/walked-away-from/payments no longer being made on homes and CRE, right? all those homes, land, and businesses that are technically in default, the banks just …. choose … not to count them as such. "we haven't foreclosed! still a good loan!
Coyote Blog
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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There is no end to this inconceivable infinity of infinities’.
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It was not inconceivable that we might soon be in a firefight, so we were leaning well forward in our foxholes.
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And Arjuna the accomplisher of inconceivable feats, having won Draupadi by his success in the amphitheatre, was saluted with reverence by all the Brahmanas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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At the moment it seems inconceivable that any of those would be applied but this story has turned out to be full of surprises.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is inconceivable that low percentages of women in other jobs would get such special treatment.
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People often believe in something they do not know or understand, and are capable of believing in something imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable - under the influence of religion. Dr T.P.Chia
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About fifteen hundred pounds 'weight of artificial and compound magnets are so disposed and arranged as to be continually pouring forth in an ever-flowing circle inconceivable and irrestibly powerful tides of the magnetic effluxion, which is well known to have
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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The decline has elicited a response from officials here that economists described as panicky, including a number of plans that would have seemed inconceivable a few months ago.
Rocky Mount Telegram - Business
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The trial judge said that refusing the fence was inconceivable and Justice Meagher said that that finding was truly extraordinary.
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Sleeping through the night was inconceivable, too, as official visits outside the working day, very early in the morning or long after work, were the most productive in an industry well acquainted with the overnight flit.
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If its range staggered his contemporaries, now it seems inconceivable that any one scholar could aspire to encompass it.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is inconceivable that the council have the power to banish us from outside our own front door in the name of traffic flow for a race meeting.
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It seems inconceivable that an operation that inflicts severe harm on women would continue to be practised wholesale, despite medical evidence of its potentially detrimental effects.
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At the moment it seems inconceivable that any of those would be applied but this story has turned out to be full of surprises.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were so happy and in love, it was inconceivable to think of him not being with me.
The Sun
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This would have been almost inconceivable two generations ago.
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Their awesome nuclear capabilities make direct war between them inconceivable.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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And if their mammoth lead remains intact after that, it seems inconceivable they will blow it.
The Sun
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Since 1997 Mr Woolas has been notable within Labour ranks for his unstinting loyalty, be this supporting illegal wars in Iraq, imposing laughably low increases to pensions, making students pay more, breaking election promises, supporting ID cards or any other number of things that would have been inconceivable back in his days as a student activist, Mr Woolas has defended New Labour unstintingly ..
Phil Woolas - New Labour Toady gets does of his own medicine
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It would surely be inconceivable now, but then nobody batted an eyelid.
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It is inconceivable that Will does not know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb.
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But a source said: 'It is inconceivable the documentary can be shown at this stage.
The Sun
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Somebody quoted the expression that you mention, and I admitted the possibility that I had "lulled" the students, if one of them said so, for at this University a student's word is not questioned, but I honestly thought it inconceivable
Board of Visitors minutes
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That would appear a discordant note on which to finish a career and why it seems inconceivable that he will not elect to fight on.
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It was still inconceivable to him that he could be forced out of office for a minor blemish such as lying to protect some of his aides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another nuclear accident in the same place is virtually/almost inconceivable.
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It is an aggressive campaign schedule that was almost inconceivable a month ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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We find it inconceivable that his accounts were imagined or invented.
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It's inconceivable that university officials would fire someone as talented and loyal as Professor Schultz.
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Some of these effects can serve to construct partial and ultimately inadequate (classical) "allegories" of the materiality of the "body" in question, both that of the manifest effects or of the irreducibly inconceivable efficacious processes responsible for these effects.
Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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No, randomness is not "inimical" to free will; it is *different* from free will, to be sure, but there is nothing inconceivable or improbable about a universe in which both free will and randomness exist, are fundamental, and interact with each other in complex ways.
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He can't go on holiday alone; it's inconceivable.
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It is not at all inconceivable that a small number of them are capable of acting like idiots.
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Mai birfday is tmrw, an mai mommee bott me a card dat sez INCONCEIVABLE when u openz it!
Nitey nite! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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First steps have been taken in the conversion of military industries, and what seemed inconceivable is happening: recent Cold War adversaries are establishing cooperation in this area.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Nobel Lecture
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It is inconceivable to think he would allow a book go to print without including in it his summary of events in Saipan.
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It may be that in harping in highest exultation how they had won to, and touched, the Path Ambrosial – the Amataŋ Padaŋ40 – Nibbana, they implied some state inconceivable to thought, inexpressible by language, while the one and the other are limited to concepts and terms of life; and yet a state which, while not in time or space, positively constitutes the sequel of the glorious and blissful days of this life's residuum.
Psalms of the Sisters
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It is inconceivable that they would have dingoed when faced with a by-election opportunity.
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It seemed inconceivable that anyone in their right mind would let a battlefield novice like me anywhere near to where people would actually be pulling triggers.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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It is almost inconceivable that the part could have come from any other plane.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is it inconceivable that some mergers may have been instigated and consummated in order to fatten up major credit unions in readiness for demutualisation?
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Holyfield did not give any firm assurance that he would box on, but it seems inconceivable that he will not.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not so inconceivable, is it -- at least in the context of a Broadway-musical romance -- that a refrain might strike lovers as magically fresh or revelatory every time it was repeated?
Tom Gliatto: A Complaint About Sondheim
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The ground over which the attack had to be delivered was an almost inconceivable quagmire.
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It is said to be imperceivable, inconceivable and unchangeable.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
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Hamilton's use of the word inconceivable, and finds that it is applied in three senses, in one of which all that is inexplicable, including the first principles, is held to be inconceivable.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Others do not talk about their symptom; they may not see their eating as a primary problem, or it seems inconceivable to them that anyone could help.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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That's inconceivable to me, the thought of someone understanding me better than I do.
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It is not inconceivable that his methods could have resulted in some of them becoming identified against their will.
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It seems inconceivable that the accident could have happened so quickly.
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To think that a ruling coalition will allow its nominated prime minister to be defeated in an election is inconceivable.
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It was inconceivable that they simply didn't know.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the candidate for initiation sees (not merely believes, remember, but actually _sees_) that what has always before seemed to him empty space is in reality a solid mass of inconceivable density, and that the matter which has appeared to be the one tangible and certain basis of things is not only by comparison tenuous as gossamer (the "web" spun by "Father-Mother"), but is actually composed of emptiness and nothingness -- is itself the very negation of matter -- then for the first time he thoroughly appreciates the valuelessness of the physical senses as guides to the truth.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
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Animals a hundred thousand times smaller than any visible with the naked eye have been discovered; these animalculae, however, move, feed and multiply, establishing the existence of organs of inconceivable tenuity.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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It's almost inconceivable that a handicapped girl is very independent and lives all alone.
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To Indians the word progress meant the passage of the soul through aeons of reincarnation towards a blissful absorption into the inconceivable void of indistinctive existence, as when at last a jar is broken and the space inside it returns to space.
Essays in Rebellion
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But, he also got responses such as this, from an Orthodox colleague, A gay Orthodox rabbi is an absurdity as inconceivable as an Orthodox rabbi who eats cheeseburgers on Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Standing Up for Our Gay Kids
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I don't want to look at this stuff very often, but it's inconceivable that it wouldn't be there when I needed it.
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It is not inconceivable to imagine a scenario where youngsters are bussed from one end of Glasgow to the other to see a concert.
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The opening of a score of nuclear sites in some six years by conventional administrative procedures alone was inconceivable.
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It is inconceivable that any national or state legislature would bar a Star of David if it allowed other symbols.
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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The idea has gone from inconceivable to quite possible at dizzying speed.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was still inconceivable to him that he could be forced out of office for a minor blemish such as lying to protect some of his aides.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if their mammoth lead remains intact after that, it seems inconceivable they will blow it.
The Sun
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There was this conviction in Froude that since History is based on achievement, and since the history of the Antilles was so genetically corrupt, so depressing in its cycles of massacres, slavery, and indenture, a culture was inconceivable and nothing could ever be created in those ramshackle ports, those monotonously feudal sugar estates.
Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture
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Without him, his side would be lost; it seems inconceivable that he could be permitted to leave this month.
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It is almost inconceivable that the part could have come from any other plane.
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It is inconceivable now that he will do that.
Times, Sunday Times
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The modern world has urbanized to an unprecedented degree, and it is inconceivable that future military contingencies will not involve urban operations.
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The arrest of such powerful men was almost inconceivable a decade ago unless they were direct rivals of the incumbent president and possible coup plotters.
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It's inconceivable that university officials would fire someone as talented and loyal as Professor Schultz.
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Indeed our materialistic, pansexualist society makes its necessity almost inconceivable to us.
Archive 2007-03-01
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The opening of a score of nuclear sites in some six years by conventional administrative procedures alone was inconceivable.
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The authors say, ‘We find it almost inconceivable that a rational patient with suspected prion disease would be in equipoise… between quinacrine and placebo.’
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It seemed inconceivable that anyone in their right mind would let a battlefield novice like me anywhere near to where people would actually be pulling triggers.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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Colour is inconceivable to people born blind.
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If its range staggered his contemporaries, now it seems inconceivable that any one scholar could aspire to encompass it.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Without him, his side would be lost; it seems inconceivable that he could be permitted to leave this month.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. Christopher Hitchens
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It takes a terrible attack or something almost inconceivable in defence to lose with numbers.
Times, Sunday Times
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People often believe in something they do not know or understand, and are capable of believing in something imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable - under the influence of religion. Dr T.P.Chia
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It was inconceivable to Einstein that the laws of nature, at any level, were the result of the operation of blind chance, which was not susceptible to deeper explanation.
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Another nuclear accident in the same place is virtually/almost inconceivable.
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And Arjuna the accomplisher of inconceivable feats, having won Draupadi by his success in the amphitheatre, was saluted with reverence by all the
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. Christopher Hitchens
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I don't mean to suggest that England is a land of trendy metropolitans, but even so it is inconceivable that our political and social debates should be hijacked by religious zealots.
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Holyfield did not give any firm assurance that he would box on, but it seems inconceivable that he will not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Discordant declarations are inconceivable and, when they occur, devastating.
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The ground over which the attack had to be delivered was an almost inconceivable quagmire.
Times, Sunday Times
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In California at least, the epicentre of the industry since the late 1980s, the idea of outlawing porn is inconceivable, given the wads of tax money it generates.
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It is almost inconceivable they will allow the transfer window to close without taking a peek through it.
The Sun
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And if their mammoth lead remains intact after that, it seems inconceivable they will blow it.
The Sun
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Taylor must prove equally astute, though it seems inconceivable that the next manager will survive so long.
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It's almost inconceivable that a handicapped girl is very independent and lives all alone.
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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The proud, dauntless, and warlike spirit of Eteocles which is designed and drawn with inconceivable power, is beautifully characterized in his reply to the above description:
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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Such a book is simply inconceivable within a manuscript culture.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the perfectly motionless flattened sphere, without the shimmer of premonition and with inconceivable suddenness, a white cross smites itself, as it were, through the sarcode.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
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It is almost inconceivable that her diet will not lead to serious health issues.
The Sun
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Jews would have none of this: to them there was only one God and it was inconceivable that he would ever be part of a bloodshedding cult, for they regarded anything connected with blood and the grave as unclean and abhorrent.
The Templar Revelation
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It is almost inconceivable that her diet will not lead to serious health issues.
The Sun
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That Presley should consent to appear on TV dressed in a tuxedo, swapping songs, and duetting with Sinatra would have been inconceivable a few years earlier.
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It is inconceivable now that he will do that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nucingen made one with the Prince de Ligne, with Mazarin or with Diderot, is a human formula that is almost inconceivable, but which has nevertheless been known as Pericles, Aristotle, Voltaire, and Napoleon.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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What's inconceivable is if you use the password saving feature, all your passwords are displayed in your settings with no encryption and no password protection to view all your information.
Google Chrome 2 Brings New Features And Serious Speed | Lifehacker Australia
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Many unprecedented things have happened in this peace process, but the idea of unionist politicians serving under a Martin McGuinness prime ministership is inconceivable.
Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
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How this income opportunity was missed seems inconceivable now, but there you go.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is by this noble slowness that the highest minds faintly emulate that inconceivable deliberateness and delicacy of gradation with which solar systems are built and worlds habilitated.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
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Such an exodus seems almost inconceivable.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were so happy and in love, it was inconceivable to think of him not being with me.
The Sun
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It is inconceivable that people should be working and not have anything to show for it.
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Even more troubling, what does it mean that we find the very idea that feminism might have reached beyond the gals and dames to be so inconceivable?
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It would surely be inconceivable now, but then nobody batted an eyelid.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few years ago a car fuelled by solar energy would have been inconceivable.
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She found the idea quite inconceivable.
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It is an aggressive campaign schedule that was almost inconceivable a month ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if their mammoth lead remains intact after that, it seems inconceivable they will blow it.
The Sun
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To many people, these beliefs sound like the delusions of lunatics and it seems inconceivable that anyone in his or her right mind would accept such beliefs.
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The thought of another nation lifting the trophy in their own backyard this time is almost inconceivable.
The Sun
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Others do not talk about their symptom; they may not see their eating as a primary problem, or it seems inconceivable to them that anyone could help.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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With the foregoing points in mind we find it inconceivable that you can approach the dealers with a view to price increases but we await your comments on how we can progress the matter.
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How does one visually compare the inconceivable with the sensible, seeable, quotidian world?
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That this barefooted beachcomber should possess such high-sounding dignity was inconceivable.
THE SEED OF McCOY
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Lloyd learned how the ship had been "nipped;" how, after inconceivable toil, the members of the expedition had gained the land; how they had marched southward toward the Chuckch settlements; how, at the eleventh hour, the survivors, exhausted and starving, had been rescued by the steam whalers; how these whalers themselves had been caught in the ice, and how the survivors of the Freja had been obliged to spend another winter in the Arctic.
A Man's Woman
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He had made another total misconception of life, another inconceivable false start.
President Grant (1869)
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The arrest of such powerful men was almost inconceivable a decade ago unless they were direct rivals of the incumbent president and possible coup plotters.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have been bathing in the clear stream, at the end of my garden; the same stream in which I laved my careless bosom at thirteen; an idea which gave me inconceivable delight; and the more, as my bosom is as gay and tranquil at this moment as in those dear hours of chearfulness and innocence.
The History of Emily Montague
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It seems inconceivable today that anyone thought lighting up on a packed Tube train was a good idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such a book is simply inconceivable within a manuscript culture.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is almost inconceivable they will allow the transfer window to close without taking a peek through it.
The Sun
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It seems inconceivable today that anyone thought lighting up on a packed Tube train was a good idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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If he had, however, it is inconceivable that he would have blamed his mother.
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It's almost inconceivable that a handicapped girl is very independent and lives all alone.
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In this early morning paradise, it seemed inconceivable that enormous violence was about to be unleashed.
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I look to see if she's near - maybe some effort's not so inconceivable after all.
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But a source said: 'It is inconceivable the documentary can be shown at this stage.
The Sun
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That his lungs might be compromised is inconceivable – I was a sickly child with respiratory problems that kept me in puffers and masks and that put me in hospital too frequently, but I was a frail, skinny thing, whereas Jasper … Jasper is the very picture of boyish strength, all hale chub and muscle and barely-contained energy, a wee Wagnerian hero ready to slay dragons, or stuffed purple dinosaurs, whichever gets in his way.
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