Sentence examples for conceive of anything from inspiring English sources

"I can't conceive of anything, excluding poison, that would endanger this population".

If the threat of this much nuclear retaliation does not deter a prospective adversary, it is difficult to conceive of anything that would.

"If I couldn't differentiate between hallucination and reality, it was hard to conceive of anything certain I could use to define myself," he says.

Frankly, it's hard to conceive of anything much less commercially viable, which isn't to suggest Crystal's not a wonderful LP, because it clearly is.

"I cannot conceive of anything better than the greatest baguette, deep golden, nutty, and crunchy, with a block of the sublime butter of Brittany and Bélon oysters," he said.

"I frankly can't conceive of anything that would be a better substitute for having two major global economies having a forum where we can make progress on the most important economic issues," Mr. Paulson said.

Hal, one of Robert's former students, is a friendly stranger in the house who has been vainly sifting through scores of Robert's scribbled notebooks to see whether the man conceived of anything significant during his lengthy illness.

As my father reeled in amazement at this declaration, Oliver continued, saying that after seeing patients for an hour or two, he felt he had learned so much from them that he could not possibly conceive of charging anything at all; indeed, he thought that he should pay them instead!

The Israeli leadership could not conceive of itself as anything less than benign, and even persuaded itself that a subjugated Arab population would come to appreciate its overlords.

In an academic piece from 2002 on common carrier regulation for telecoms (pdf), James Speta, a professor at Northwestern Law in Chicago, discovered that "the earliest cases refused to find that telegraph and telephone companies were common carriers, because the courts could not conceive of them as 'carriers' of anything".

It existed from the beginning, in my recognition and appreciation of your great critical gift, and I cannot conceive of its being changed by anything.