Sentence examples for scope of the possible from inspiring English sources

The nature and scope of the possible sanctions were unspecified.

The almost boundless scope of the possible was limited only by the occurrence of the actual.

"Given the urgent need to identify exactly what happened and to fully understand the scope of the possible threat, the district attorney made the decision to launch an immediate investigation," Mr. Phillips said.

As she put it in her essay on the subject: "There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against a threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside, ejected beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable.

Topics to be examined include the scope of the BBC, the possible replacement of the licence fee with a universal household levy and whether or not the corporation's commercial arm BBC Worldwide should be privatised.

4.20pm GMT Interactive My colleagues at Guardian US have devised this interactive to illustrate the scope of the NSA's possible surveillance.

Capital goods on background and foreground data and provision of tap water to the home were also excluded from the scope of the study where possible.

While the identification of this receiver is beyond the scope of the manuscript, this possible mechanism should be mentioned.

Although determining the real reason for the observed results is beyond the scope of the present study, the possible reasons should be related to different response styles of the respondents.

Privately, however, military officials voice deeper concerns about the scope of any possible spy penetration at the prison camp, and the ultimate goal of any conspiracy.

In any case, this pragmatic strategy appears to unduly restrict the scope of possible disagreement, since it is possible to disagree with people who are not part of the conversation.