(1) No one should be naive enough to believe these possibilities are unthinkable .

(2) Other families with other children, he says, have suffered unthinkable loss.

(3) Less than a decade ago such adjoining public events would have been unthinkable .

(4) In such a situation a handshake is unthinkable and a mere waving of one hand is somehow too frivolous.

(5) A couple of decades ago, such an event happening in England would have been unthinkable .

(6) In its 18 years in power it pressed ahead with previously unthinkable policies.

(7) In extreme cases it can also lead to suicide and, unthinkable but not unheard of, the death of a child at the hands of its own mother.

(8) What are the frontlines of defence against such an unthinkable catastrophe?

(9) He says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.

(10) His creed, and his actions, are unthinkable , but he is also our invention.

(11) Yet think of other Scots for whom such a remedy would be unthinkable .

(12) By 60, you've learnt to think the unthinkable and, even better, to say the unsayable.

(13) A whole winter brooding on the events of August would be unthinkable for such a meticulous mind.

(14) Such events seemed unthinkable to most mainstream commentators a few years ago.

(15) Before the event got under way, that prospect seemed pretty much unthinkable .

(16) Such draconian measures would be almost unthinkable in a democratic system.

(17) To involve them in a new set of dangers would have been unthinkable .

(18) That any Trade Union could ever be expelled from the Party was once unthinkable .

(19) When a team is embroiled in a relegation battle a meagre point never seems quite enough to quench the fear of the unthinkable .

(20) Thankfully Ferguson was one of them too, and the unthinkable defeat became merely an unpalatable draw.