Sentence examples for vague possibilities from inspiring English sources

But he soon discovers that memory is a slippery thing, "not a summation, it is a chaos of vague possibilities".

Mill refers to these possibilities which are conditional certainties as "permanent possibilities", thus distinguishing them from mere vague possibilities which experience gives us no warrant for reckoning upon.

Most large companies have overseas divisions, but you need to be certain that any promises of travel are concrete rather than vague possibilities.

To the contrary, as just indicated, Mill carefully distinguishes between the permanent possibilities that constitute ordinary things from the mere or "vague" possibilities that we conjure up in our imagination.

Planned holidays and the vague possibility of a company pension.

Instead, worried at hurt feelings and a vague possibility of retribution, I apologised.

Now he was in the I.C.U. with a rare cardiac condition and the vague possibility of a transplant.

But other EU leaders must now accept that a UK referendum is a reality, not a vague possibility, which changes the rules of engagement.

The one small caveat offered to Terry was the vague possibility the situation might change when a permanent successor is appointed to José Mourinho in the summer.

I believe my company will become successful, but that vague possibility of future riches is not why I go to work every day.

But, if that prospect is even a vague possibility, it is time for the Co-op movement to consider its role in life.