As an artist, I have often tried to envision an appropriate monument to the slaves who lived and died helping make this country what it is today.
Harper's critics have often seemed to suggest that his envisioned Canada was small-souled and excessively concerned with money.
Over the last 60 years, those responsibilities have often expanded, but they have done so because that is what presidents have chosen, not because the Constitution envisions it.
For example, as historian Caroline Walker Bynum has discussed, the Catholic Church herself was often envisioned as a lactating mother, perhaps most famously by Bernard of Clairvaux.
He often envisioned the perfect Olympic race, a mixture of timing and precision and control.
Addy's Agape V communicates unity and envisions the need for "love and kindness," virtues Hillary Clinton has often spoken of on the campaign trail.
I've often wondered, what makes it so difficult for doctors to envision patients beyond their role as sick people?
Mr Maltzan envisions the new bridge as "creating cohesion," he said, "as opposed to doing what infrastructure has often done here, which is to separate neighbourhoods into silos".
And although I don't have political aspirations at the moment, I often envision the man living inside that white house looking back at me, inspiring me everyday and representing all that is possible in this lifetime.
"The American dream has served as a road map for the way we often envision the course of our lives," they wrote.
