When the administrator warned that we might go bust, I started to imagine adopting a new team, a team nearer where I now live, with Champions League football and better chants.
The newly adopted faith, they imagine, is a shining, perfectly balanced system, an intricately worked clock where the cosmos turns to tell the time and the cuckoo comes out singing every Sunday.
Not automatically identifying drug use with crime might make it possible to imagine adopting a program similar to Portugal's decriminalization of drug possession.
Alternatively, one could imagine adopting a strategy where one might inhibit autophagy to switch the tumor cell death mechanism towards caspase-dependent apoptosis without release of HMGB1.
A handful of other Web-only broadcasters, including Radio SonicNet (radio.sonicnet.com), have adopted the Imagine Radio model, which allows listeners to design their own "stations," which will play only requested artists or desired song types.
Imagine you adopt a large dog to help guard your home.
Selby, who will play Matthew Selt in the first round, said he could not imagine ever adopting O'Sullivan's approach to the game.
The ambassador, who returns to Ankara in September, also said he couldn't imagine Turkey adopting the death penalty, which the EU opposes, arguing there was no majority in the Turkish parliament for capital punishment.
Can you imagine airlines adopting this approach toward fixing known hazards by rationalizing that they could always compensate victims' families should the worst happen?
I don't care -- I relish the little joys I get every day that I couldn't conceive of before adopting and now cannot imagine life without my kids.
