With reference to the example of water, one might say that the reason one found the statement water is present without hydrogen conceivable is that one had not conceived of the scenario in sufficient enough detail.
In a far-sighted passage of A Many-Splendoured Thing, she praised those who went back but warned that: "They may see their words twisted, their devotion warped, and their best intentions serve ends which they had not conceived".
— Elizabeth Edwards put herself through emotional and mental gymnastics to find a way to believe that her husband, former Senator John Edwards, had not conceived a child with a campaign videographer, one of Mrs. Edwards's closest friends told a federal jury here on Wednesday.
The judge said Mrs. Plavsic had not conceived or planned the violent Serbian campaign of ethnic separation that killed tens of thousands of Muslims and Croats and expelled many more from their lands with "great brutality," but that she embraced, supported and contributed to it.
Through his research, he wanted to return to a primal existence, when humanity had not conceived of its first artificial product: language.
Females that had not conceived on day 11 were re-inseminated 21 days later, and this was repeated for a maximum of three attempts; then non-pregnant animals were culled for low fertility.
In Australia, heterosexual couples are diagnosed as infertile if they haven't conceived after one year of trying, and that diagnosis-period is reduced to six months if the woman is over 35.
When it's unexplained there's always a hope that it might happen naturally, so the emotional impact of the disappointment every month when you haven't conceived is really tough.
"Imagine you were getting on with your life at 34 or 35, getting married, trying to conceive and you go to see your GP aged 36 because you haven't conceived, and he says, "Come back in a year when you're 37".
