Sentence examples for conceive of situation from inspiring English sources

"I find it hard to conceive of situation that you could justify a performance bonus for management that virtually bankrupted the company," Mr. Cuomo said after the agreement was made.

Now that it is focused more on the math needed for users to create their own algorithm implementations, we can conceive of situations in which a user may wish to be familiar with and utilize both Mahout and MLlib.

A further 32% reportedly could conceive of situations in which they would be prepared to do so.

For all one knows they have conceived of a situation or were able to conceive of a situation in which P appears to hold because they do not know the relevant facts which make P inconceivable, since those facts are only knowable a posteriori.

And positive (as opposed to negative) conceivability concerns the question of whether P is imaginable: to positively conceive of a situation is "to in some sense imagine a specific configuration of objects and properties" (Chalmers 2002).

As of now, every team down to No. 13 Missouri could conceive of a situation where they could leap into one of the top two spots.

All that matters is whether it is possible to conceive of a situation in which the conclusion would be false and all of the premises would be true.

And given the West's efforts to support democracy in Russia, some naval experts said they could not conceive of a situation in which American or British officials would attempt to cover up a tragic accident now.

This inference is valid because, although the premises and the conclusion are not all true, it is impossible to conceive of a situation in which all of the premises would be true but the conclusion would be false.

When asked whether he could conceive of a situation in which his group might reject NASA's work as not meeting the recommendations of the board, he said it was more likely that his group would work with NASA to ensure that it could "meet the intent" of the board.

"There should not even be any contemplation of bonuses for executive performance because I find it hard to conceive of a situation that you could justify a performance bonus for management that virtually bankrupted the company," Mr. Cuomo said on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon.