Again, this continues the theme that Marx took up in his 1844 letter to Ruge, which I have quoted before, about the realisation of a long-held human dream.
In another of his poems, Love, I Had Thought it Rocklike, he describes his initial idea of love as "Rooted and foursquare," before his realisation that "... it was thistledown/ Or the touch of a wand".
Before that realisation had really set in, a guy jumped out of a bush with a machete and demanded our cameras.
It is also clear from national variation and inequalities that significant improvements can be made just by sharing best practice and using the knowledge, interventions, tools and clinical expertise available today, even before the realisation of promising new molecular techniques, innovations and personalised medicines.
Concepts may need to reach a particular state of realisation before being deemed worthy of publication in a peer-reviewed journal, whether this reflects the caution of the author, the inertia of the peer review community or, perhaps, a combination of both.
Fifty metres became 40; then 30 and 20 before the moment of realisation hit: Murdoch, the Lion, was not for weakening.
Many students turn up at the career centre in their last term of study, just before graduation, panicked by the realisation that they will be graduates in a matter of months but still have no job or prospect of employment.
"Many of the young people Centrepoint work with would have been in terrible situations for several months before they came to the realisation they were homeless and that's just the first step".
A recent house move complete with last-minute lost cat, followed by the realisation, three days before our carefully booked budget flights to Gothenburg, that seven-year-old Ruby's passport has expired, has led to a week-long, group, family panic attack.
