Brooks Robinson is great, and it is conceivable that he'll do even better in 1961 than he did in 1960.

It is perfectly conceivable that a resumption of atmospheric tests may, at some point in the future, be necessary and even justifiable.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.

' Being ' is conceivable, ' to be ' is not.

Being is quite conceivable apart from actual existence ; so much so that the very first and the most universal of all the distinctions in the realm of being is that which divides it into two classes, that of the real and that of the possible.

It is hardly conceivable that the Romans would have recorded such a form as Cimbri The name has also been related to the word kimme meaning “ rim ”, i. e. the people of the coast.

It is conceivable, according to historian Archie Brown, that Konayev and Shcherbytsky would rather have voted in favour of Viktor Grishin as General Secretary then Gorbachev.

With regard to ( 1 ), Hume argues that the uniformity principle cannot be demonstrated, as it is " consistent and conceivable " that nature might stop being regular.

If Lorentz symmetry can cease to be a fundamental symmetry at Planck scale or at some other fundamental scale, it is conceivable that particles with a critical speed different from the speed of light be the ultimate constituents of matter.

Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction.

The work is a complete and systematic treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, illustrated with many fine and interesting woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and more besides.

In particular, files of random data cannot be consistently compressed by any conceivable lossless data compression algorithm: indeed, this result is used to define the concept of randomness in algorithmic complexity theory.

The child's input ( a finite number of sentences encountered by the child, together with information about the context in which they were uttered ) is, in principle, compatible with an infinite number of conceivable grammars.

( It is conceivable that there may have been an intruder that the dog did not detect, but that does not invalidate the argument ; the first premise goes " if the watch-dog detects an intruder.

It is conceivable that John, just because he is writing so long after the event and at a time when Mary was dead, wishes to point out to us that she was really the same as the " sinner.

... and among its marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe.

Nevertheless, it is conceivable that a person might obtain control of a thing before forming the intention to possess it.

Specifically, in an environment where it is considered important to know the probability of a fraudulent login in order to accept the risk, one can ensure that the total number of possible passwords multiplied by the time taken to try each one ( assuming the greatest conceivable computing resources ) is much greater than the password lifetime.

And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

You could also say that in these pamphlets is a relieving quality of maturity.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

Something was happening all right, slowly it is true, but you could feel it.

Whether it could be as disastrous for American labor as, say, Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters, is a matter of conjecture.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn.

It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

He could now but the weakness is very definite ; ;

Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.