Still, the doctor said, he was enormously impressed by the "seriousness" with which CDC officials treated the possibility of a link between mitochondria, autism and possibly vaccines as well.
But after 9/11, we can no longer treat the possibility as fanciful.
The aspect of condoms that offends some orthodox religious beliefs, after all, is that it treats the possibility of pregnancy as something as unwanted as a disease, something to be prevented for the sake of sexual gratification: the condom is an indulgence, an avoidance.
But it is difficult to treat the possibility of an afterlife as entirely irrelevant.
"All you can do is crack on with it and treat the possibility of death as an unwritten rule.
The conclusion is not that time travel is impossible, but that we should treat it the way we treat the possibility of, say, tossing a fair coin and getting heads one thousand times in a row.
This article treats the possibility of using artificial neural networks for road detection from high-resolution satellite images on a part of RGB Ikonos and Quick-Bird images from Kish Island and Bushehr Harbor, respectively.
When O'Leary accepts 'Lloyd is I.L. Humberstone', he will no longer treat the possibility that the man in front of him is not the author of the famous article as a live option: this empirical possibility will be eliminated from his context set.
So we need to treat the possibility of pandemic very seriously.
The CMR hypothesis offered the possibility of treating the nature of human interaction as the origin of both, the parameters and the metafunctions, resolving both issues with one stroke.
