Sentence examples for unthinkable steps from inspiring English sources

But such signs of neglect between Japan and Russia are likely to recede further if Japanese oil companies do indeed undertake the once unthinkable steps of exploring in eastern Siberia and building a pipeline to the Sea of Japan.

This is not what Mrs Merkel means when she talks, with increasing fervour, of the need for "more Europe".Under pressure, Mrs Merkel may be ready to consider hitherto unthinkable steps, including transfers to the neediest countries and European-level taxes.

A few years ago, the Minister of Urban Affairs, Jean-Louis Borloo, took the unthinkable step of demolishing tens of thousands of apartments in the worst of the cités.

During the recent debates around the legalisation of gay marriage, Tory critics warned that the next, unthinkable step would be multiple marriage.

Only a week ago, the News Corporation hoped to contain the damage by taking another dramatic and once unthinkable step: shutting down the 168-year-old News of the World, which Mr. Murdoch purchased in 1969 to form the foundation for his British media empire.

Adobe Systems took a bold, almost unthinkable step in 2012.

I am taking the unthinkable step next month away from GA to lead this team in Foster City, CA, starting sometime in May".

In addition, with lawyers now allowed to advertise in Japan, many Japanese have been encouraged to take the previously unthinkable step of declaring personal bankruptcy.

A love that was personified by Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple from Central Point, Virginia, who, in 1958, dared to do the unthinkable: Step across the color line and marry outside of their respective races.

PARIS — Switzerland's central bank signaled Thursday it was prepared to consider a once-unthinkable step: pegging the nation's "massively overvalued" currency to the euro, at least temporarily.

Like most big American newspapers, it supplements the work of its own staff with dozens of items daily from The A.P. Unhappy with both the A.P. service and its price — more than $800,000 a year at a time when The Dispatch's finances are severely pinched — the paper on Friday took the once-unthinkable step of saying it would drop the service.