The reasons are not difficult to fathom.

Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

You very quickly work out what is it that you've got to do to fathom that out.

Darfur may have slipped from the news headlines, but the killing and displacement there continues as well, and the sheer human misery that it creates is very hard to fathom.

It is difficult to fathom why 10  communities could be a prerequisite to educational activity, especially since one community, such as that in Minsk, may be larger than many small separate communities.

While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard the global climate disaster.

There is also the selection bias that we infer from looking at the twentieth century, the most successful in terms of economic growth in human history. The twenty first century will be different in ways that we cannot fathom today.

Nonetheless, the support that the military coup received from many Egyptian liberals is difficult to fathom. Clever word games cannot hide the essence of what happened a government that came to power in a fair election was overthrown by the army.

The one belt, one road initiative aims to re create the ancient overland and maritime Silk Roads that carried goods and ideas from Asia to Europe. Given that the project will entail significant Chinese investment affecting some 50 countries, its appeal in the developing world is not difficult to fathom.

Yet Suu Kyi, and much of the Burmese opposition, is beginning to admit that today s political liberalization might be the real thing. Because Burma s generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long suppressed opposition.

The event s popularity is not hard to fathom. Who but the most die hard global warming denier could resist the notion, as Earth Hour s American website phrased it this year, that merely by flipping off your lights on March 27 at 8 30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation ?

That said, US opposition to the AIIB is harder to fathom, given that infrastructure policy is much less subject to the influence of ideology and special interests than other policymaking areas, such as those dominated by the US at the World Bank. Moreover, the need for environmental and social safeguards in infrastructure investment is more likely to be addressed effectively within a multilateral framework.