The hope was that its dire threats would make it unthinkable for any country to breach 3%.
But he makes it plain, without wringing his hands or denigrating the locals, that the culture of violence along with tribal and religious intrigue make it unthinkable for Western democratic values to take root any time soon.
In the aftermath of the 2002 sectarian riots in Gujarat, fear would have made it unthinkable for a Muslim to run a nonvegetarian restaurant in a primarily Hindu part of Ahmedabad.
"We have to make it not only illegal, we have to make it unthinkable … I feel this is God's mission for me.
Those hearings infuriated the country, and made it unthinkable that banks would continue to be allowed to sell securities.
"Up until now, the lives of the Dreamers themselves, their courage, and their willingness to tell their own stories — that's what protected them, because that's what makes it so unthinkable for the government to remove them," Cecilia Muñoz, who, as the director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House, helped craft DACA, told me recently.
And they say the teams of women, known as the Daughters of Iraq, play a crucial role in a country where rigid divisions between the sexes make it awkward, sometimes unthinkable, for male police officers to frisk women and girls in search of the telltale lump of a gun or an explosive belt.
Mobile phones make it possible for users to communicate with, and send money to, relatives in faraway villages with an ease that was once unthinkable.
It is the first time the two Edinburgh clubs have met in the Scottish Cup final since 1896, Hibs are looking to end a 110-year wait to lift the trophy and Hearts winger Andrew Driver thinks that makes defeat unthinkable for the Tynecastle side.
They make it clear that Spanish art became a code word for the seismic rise of Realism, a movement unthinkable without the Spanish infusion of Velázquez and Goya.
