Today, that is unthinkable.

The economic consequences are almost unthinkable.

I'm just telling you that these are balanced people who do unthinkable work.

And we had a conversation, and then I asked her this unthinkable question.

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

Isn t that politically unthinkable? One is ineluctably led to the conclusion that governance of the eurozone is irredeemably flawed.

On the night of 25 to 26 February 1992, armed forces of the Republic of Armenia committed an unthinkable, brutal crime.

They are highly reactive, and they are super plastic, and so the autists are probably capable of building and learning a symphony which is unthinkable for us.

There are two reasons why, until now, the second option leaving the monetary union has been unthinkable. The first has to do with economic and financial risks.

The hard to do is preferable to the unacceptable and the unthinkable. Still, there is little indication so far that the two reform laggards are up to the challenge.

And if we cannot figure out a way to deal with that torque, we are going to find ourselves more and more and more quickly facing situations which are simply unthinkable.

Parlous conditions required dramatic measures. And that is what the economy got in the form of unprecedented fiscal stimulus and unthinkable policy activism on the part of the US Federal Reserve.

Naturally, politicians are reluctant to face up to choices between the unacceptable (permanent stagnation), the unthinkable (leaving the euro), and the hard to do (reform). So they are taking refuge in fantasy.

In Europe, once torn apart by war, armed conflict among EU member states is now almost unthinkable. The EU s institutional architecture facilitated the pivot from devastating and recurrent wars to peace and prosperity.

If the European Union has done one thing, it is to make war between France and Germany unthinkable. Thus, the entire geopolitical context is far less threatening than it was in the 1930 s.

Intellectuals, on the other hand, have a special obligation to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable. They are supposed to consider all possibilities, even disagreeable ones, and prepare the population for prospective developments.

Why should what worked in Northern Ireland indeed, what was pressed on Britain by the United States be unthinkable in the Middle East? Are we in the West guilty of double standards yet again?

As it was unthinkable for a mother to be unable to inherit anything from a child of hers who had died, it had been decided that the inheritance would be a joint one, in parallel.

This new round of central bank activism reflects persistent concerns about economic growth. Despite a once unthinkable amount of monetary stimulus, global output remains well below potential, with the potential itself at risk of being suppressed.

While European leaders have repeatedly done what previously seemed unthinkable, their responses have been out of synch with markets. They have consistently underestimated their austerity programs adverse effects and overestimated the benefits of their institutional adjustments.

The world is poised to undergo one of the most dramatic power shifts in human history. In order to be prepared for the transformation, Americans must abandon ingrained ideas and old assumptions, and liberate unthinkable thoughts.

First, Libya s TNC is the best bet we can make now for Libya s future. Its leaders are cooperating in an effort to bring about real reform in a way that was unthinkable a few months ago.

After extensive power sharing negotiations, a Croat mayor was finally elected with an element of cross party and cross ethnic support a development that would have been almost unthinkable before the statute was imposed a year ago.

The use of force among advanced industrial democracies is virtually unthinkable. In their relations with each other , such countries are all from Venus, to paraphrase Robert Kagan, and here Europe s focus on law and institutions is an asset.

Once they succeeded in overcoming a painful crisis management phase, many of these countries accumulated previously unthinkable levels of international reserves as precautionary cushions. They extinguished billions in external indebtedness by generating and sustaining large current account surpluses.

When the astronomical distance between the realities of the academy and the visionary intensity of this challenge were more than enough, I can assure you, to give one pause, what was happening outside higher education made backing off unthinkable.

In the past, such a combination of countries was almost unthinkable, and these exercises cannot be explained away as simple one off affairs with little resonance. Instead, they reflect China s long term strategic goal of establishing hegemony across Asia.

Yet there is some good analytical news. Ireland provides insights that are helpful in understanding how sociopolitical systems, including economically devastated countries like Cyprus and Greece, have coped so far with shocks that were essentially unthinkable just a few years ago.

Indeed, the idea of warfare on the Korean peninsula should be unthinkable, given the grotesque levels of deaths that it would likely cause. Even to contemplate such a possibility is proof of diplomatic failure, not a triumph of real leadership.

Yet there is some good analytical news. Ireland provides insights that are helpful in understanding how sociopolitical systems, including economically devastated countries like Cyprus and Greece, have coped so far with shocks that were essentially unthinkable just a few years ago.

There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature.

It is to the great credit of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that he had the courage to launch an open peace process with the PKK in 2013. Since then, that process has made progress that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago.

SINGAPORE The time has come to think the unthinkable the era of American dominance in international affairs may well be coming to an end. As that moment approaches, the main question will be how well the United States is prepared for it.

Second, the euro area benefits from an independent European Central Bank whose swift actions to ease liquidity constraints and coordinate monetary policy have recently helped to avert a financial meltdown. Such rapid, coordinated steps by 16 national central banks would have been unthinkable.

In a world where nuclear proliferation has rendered global conventional war unthinkable, economic sanctions and sabotage are likely to play a large role in twenty first century geopolitics. Rather than preventing conflict, Pericles s sanctions in ancient Greece ultimately helped to trigger the Peloponnesian War.

Five years on, the eurozone still lacks a proper banking union, or even, as Greece demonstrated, a proper lender of last resort. Moreover, a higher inflation target remains unthinkable, and the German government argues that defaults on sovereign debt are illegal within the eurozone.

PARIS Dire conditions can permit what was once unthinkable to push its way into public debate. In France, the idea that now dares to speak its name is that the country will sink into an ever deeper economic malaise unless it regains its monetary sovereignty.

South America is becoming a region where war is unthinkable what the political scientist Karl Deutsch once called a security community. Having visited every South American country in my tenure as Defense Minister, I am convinced that, the most effective deterrent on the continent is cooperation.

Right across the world, people are doing the unthinkable they're slowing down, and finding that, although conventional wisdom tells you that if you slow down, you're road kill, the opposite turns out to be true that by slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better.

Such was the adulation once heaped upon its aging stars that many of them remained on the national team long past their peak. But a mere two years after winning the World Cup in 2011, several members of that victorious team have been replaced a decision that until recently would have seemed unthinkable.

The consequences are already visible to avoid a complete meltdown, Cyprus has been forced to introduce capital controls which everyone had thought were illegal and unthinkable within the eurozone. As a result, investors and depositors have learned that the erection of financial barriers within the currency area is indeed a genuine risk.

But the vicious racist attacks on the justice minister, Christiane Taubira, who is black, would have been unthinkable in past decades. And, throughout Europe, the loss of taboos and the belief that anything can be said and anyone insulted has led to an increase in racist incidents that are only superficially isolated.

Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable. Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.

The tuna team from TOPP has done the unthinkable three teams tagged 1,700 tunas, bluefin, yellowfin and albacore all at the same time carefully rehearsed tagging programs in which we go out, pick up juvenile tunas, put in the tags that actually have the sensors, stick out the tuna and then let them go.

Could we go back to 1944, when the lessons of the 1930 s were drawn at an international level, and fix exchange rates once more? That would run counter to almost every argument of modern economics, but, at a moment when we are looking to the past for financial solutions, it is no longer unthinkable.