It's impossible to envision Nick Clegg hauling Philip Green or Goldman Sachs and Vodafone to Downing Street one morning for a fiscal shafting.
It's impossible to envision museum-goers standing around for long listening to Gideon and Margie's substance-less shtick and veiled hostilities before stomping off to register a complaint at the information desk.
It is impossible to envision an orderly world in which remains the accepted instrument of government and in which sixty or seventy nations each arrive independently at a clean, well-defined policy based on self interest.
He told the crowd that Americans "are praying for you," but he also said that it was impossible to envision the extent of the damage until it was seen firsthand.
Another specific stipulation in the donors' clarifications stated, "As it is impossible to envision future requests or unforeseen circumstances, all activities not explicitly identified in this document are inconsistent with donor intent and should not be undertaken or allowed".
Similarly, to some extent, an investor and entrepreneur will come together and create products, but despite their best intentions, it's impossible to envision how their offspring will grow and develop.
Without support from the ground up — be it in universities, funding, film festivals or major studios, it's impossible to envision a Hollywood where all voices have an equal chance to be heard.
One wonders what the folks who wrote those emails are thinking now: While Buckley could engage in some dicey rhetoric himself, it's impossible to envision him fantasizing about watching sex tapes.
Performance-based mechanisms — which would see four-fifths of Norway's $1 billion paid out only after results are delivered — also mean the kind of grand swindle envisioned by the Greenpeace report would be impossible to pull off, he said.
