To do that, however, he will probably need to come up with some serious domestic initiatives on climate change, so as to claw back some of the credibility and goodwill he has lost on this issue in recent weeks.Such an outcome seems less fanciful when one considers that it is not only green groups, or even the ordinary punter, that wants action on climate change.
Maybe not all that fanciful.
The Senate report – from which all Republicans on the intelligence committee dissented – considers that "historical record" to be fanciful.
David Stubbs Go back a century, and the idea that Britain had urban and rural landscapes worth preserving was considered rather fanciful.
Last year, the president promised to double exports over five years, a goal most economists considered fanciful; has promoted "Buy America" requirements that have roiled trade relations with Canada, the United States' largest trading partner; and often extols the special virtues of manufacturing companies, proposing more special tax breaks for them just last week.
But talk outside the Senate of Mrs. Clinton becoming majority leader is considered truly fanciful within the Senate, where it has also provoked unspoken irritation at the image of Democrats waiting for Mrs. Clinton to swoop in off the campaign to guide her waiting colleagues.
But the repercussions of their run to the third round of the FA Cup appeared to affect them and when, six days later, they lost 2-0 at home to Kidderminster, promotion talk would have been considered somewhat fanciful.
Nick Johnson, director of Manchester-based developer Urban Splash, said part of Alsop's problem was that his reputation had been damaged by plans for a series of northern towns which many considered fanciful.
But the notion of floating disc-shaped aircraft wasn't considered fanciful by governments and militaries around the world.
Marks in this category aren't quite as strong as those considered fanciful or arbitrary, but you can still get a suggestive mark trademarked if it meets other requirements.
