Sentence examples for conceive of was from inspiring English sources

He praises immigrants as a precious resource and speaks of current immigration policy with undisguised disgust — "the most ruinous economic policy you could ever conceive of" was his line on Wednesday.

Lord Strathclyde – full name the Right Honourable Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, which is in itself a better joke than I could ever hope to conceive of – was until, January 2013, one of Cameron's more senior cabinet ministers.

The greatest luxury she can conceive of is having someone do the ironing.

Even with a technological gold mine at his disposal, all Mr. Gorak can conceive of is destruction.

According to the article the existence of a technological intelligence capable of functions we can't even conceive of is a question of "when" and not "if".

Until I was selected five years ago, no-one could conceive of being openly gay and elected as a Conservative MP, let alone in a true blue area.

Escorting him on his own from the Castle a few months into the job, I asked whether he could conceive of being first minister.

"Even with a technological gold mine at his disposal, all Mr. Gorak can conceive of is destruction," Jeanette Catsoulis wrote in The Times in December.

More intriguingly disruptive, two sad paintings, which you can't conceive of being kept on view at the Metropolitan Museum or the Museum of Modern Art, illustrate an incidental boon of the sort of institution that treats art works as objects of study.

What we can conceive of is a situation in which objects move in ways that appear to violate the law.

A nominalist further believes that the structures we conceive of are properties of our representations of the world and not of the world itself.