A break-up of the euro may not be unthinkable, but it would certainly be damaging, painful and very expensive.
To people passing the chic bistro, the scene was unthinkable: the city's social elite sitting down to luxurious suppers when so many were cold and starving.
With the click of a few keys, I can send each of them a message, pulling them into my life in Numbers and with a frequency that was unthinkable twenty years ago.
Both of these "unthinkable" events occurred in 2008.
If the last few years taught us anything, it's that the unthinkable has an uncanny knack of happening.
Conditions were so inhospitable to planting that their empty stomachs soon had them planning to do the unthinkable: eat their seeds, their future.
Five years ago the making of such a programme would have been unthinkable, but now, according to Mr Hong, people are at last beginning to realise that gays are “not aliens”.
This is one American workplace where an English-only policy is unthinkable.
Since then, in the words of Mary D. Garrard, she has suffered a scholarly neglect that is almost unthinkable for an artist of her caliber.
Leaving such a large number of people with no effective treatment would be an unthinkable tragedy.
In "The Lovely Bones," as in that book, she deals with almost unthinkable subjects with humor and intelligence and a kind of mysterious grace.
Arab notions of modesty make it unthinkable that the police or guards would search women.
Such challenges were unthinkable half-a-century ago when prospectors looking for uranium stumbled instead on a rich deposit of rare earths about an hour's drive from Las Vegas.
England was staring at an unthinkable home defeat to Greece back in 2001, which would have meant that World Cup qualification was uncertain.
In other words, it is unthinkable.
Living without a mobile phone was also unthinkable for 97 percent of those questioned in that age range.
There were even makeshift shops along the road, selling cold drinks and snacks — unthinkable even two years ago.
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