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1. " Having said that, one must acknowledge the strange and powerful fascination that many of these texts exert: like glimpses (furtive or not) of some lost or forbidden world, they hint at times and places we could otherwise only imagine."

Source:   Boening, John. "Christopher Middleton. Crypto-Topographia: Stories of Secret Places" World Literature Today 78.3-4 Sept. 1 2004: 101-102 Google This

2. " It is difficult to imagine Liebling writing such a passage, or having such thoughts about such things, even inchoately."

Source:   Epstein, Joseph. "Around the block with A.J. Liebling" Commentary 118.5 Dec. 1 2004: 45-50 Google This

3. " Although facilitating community participation in disadvantaged schools can be difficult, this article argues that, given the structuring of schooling in contemporary western democracies, it is even more difficult than we might imagine."

Source:   Mills, Carmen,Gale, Trevor. "Parent participation in disadvantaged schools: moving beyond attributions of blame" Australian Journal of Education 48.3 Nov. 1 2004: 268-282 Google This

4. " Relying on accumulating only large packets of land for preservation, he argues, might be a politically difficult thing to do, and as a result, species which might otherwise be saved might be lost forever."

Source:   Kuserk, Frank T. "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age ofExtinctions" Ecology v79.n5 July 1 1998: 1842-1844 Google This

5. " Graham imagines herself a visionary (poets writing this badly almost always have high-minded reasons) -- otherwise it would be difficult..."

Source:   Logan, William. "The way of all flesh" New Criterion 18.10 June 1 2000: 63 Google This

6. " A less productive line of discourse is difficult to imagine, immediately putting Khatami on the defensive and requiring him either to offer unverifiable denials or possibly betray powerful political opponents to a foreign government."

Source:   Noyes, James H. "FALLACIES, SMOKE AND PIPE DREAMS: FORCING CHANGE IN IRAN AND IRAQ" Middle East Policy 7.3 June 1 2000: 28 Google This

7. " Mr. Helms, the powerful North Carolina Republican who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thought Hong Kong was behaving otherwise."

Source:   Constantine, Gus. "Hong Kong denies China calls shots: Only sought `clarification' on residency" Washington Times Apr. 16 1999: 15 Google This

8. " It is not difficult to imagine that the advertisements featuring short and powerful juxtapositions of graphic images in a rapid edit montage style may become the video aesthetic of choice for more than anti-abortion political contenders (Levi, 1996)."

Source:   Lomicky, Carol S.,Salestrom, Charles B. "Anti-Abortion Advertising and Access to the Airwaves: A Public Interest Doctrine Dilemma" Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 42.4 Sept. 22 1998: 491-492 Google This

9. "... the influence of other powerful forces in society." The task of imagining a moral condition worse than those we have now may be difficult for Hunter, but it does not seem that hard to me. Once upon..."

Source:   Wolfe, Alan. "ARE THINGS REALLY THIS BAD?" Commonweal 127.11 June 2 2000: 22 Google This

10. " When effective, it is a powerful piece of machinery which recycles nature and the experience and the imagination of an author, transforming it into something which only that voice and no other can structure and project, and which bears its stamp."

Source:   Donoso, Jose. "A Small Biography of The Obscene Bird of Night" Review of Contemporary Fiction 19.3 Sept. 22 1999: 123 Google This

11. "... not just that it occupies an extremely sensitive and powerful place in Britain's social structure, but that, to an even greater degree, it holds sway within its social and cultural imagination."

Source:   Johnson, R W. "For God's sake, grow up!" New Statesman (1996) 129.4490 June 12 2000: 13 Google This

12. " Second, when politicians seek accommodation on a particularly sensitive policy, constitutional sentences may be used as powerful arguments to explain shifts that citizens may otherwise interpret as political incoherence..."

Source:   Barreiro, Belen. "Judicial review and political empowerment: abortion in Spain" West European Politics 21.4 Oct. 1 1998: 147-148 Google This

13. " He does not address why he labels such a fantasy life "disconcerting"; in fact, it can be argued that such rich imaginations provide sustenance for characters otherwise quite deprived."

Source:   MACPHERSON, HEIDI SLETTEDAHL. "Class-ifying Escape: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio" CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41.3 Mar. 22 2000: 263

14. " In short, Fielding makes his words and Wild's meaning seem compatible, indeed inseparable: one thing more than two, and unimaginable otherwise, once imagined so vividly as one."

Source:   Lockwood, Thomas. "THEATRICAL FIELDING" Studies in the Literary Imagination 32.2 Sept. 22 1999: 105 Google This

15. "... that the story may not otherwise reach, and also can tell them very powerfully and provocatively." Of documentaries Jacobs said, "One of the things that documentaries allowed the networks to do is turn content into a brand," As cable networks name..."

Source:   . "Headline Club discusses cable and investigative journalism" Quill 88.3 Apr. 1 2000: 4 Google This

16. " Nevertheless, I argue that Pynchon employs a crude psychoanalysis, imagined rather simplistically, and effective aesthetically largely through the powerful and complex metaphor of the Rocket."

Source:   Lynd, Margaret. "Science, narrative, and agency in Gravity's Rainbow" CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.1 Sept. 22 2004: 63-81 Google This

17. " By choosing often exotic plants that grow more effectively in difficult climates and by imagining new structures to protect them from both wind and..."

Source:   Scanlon, Matt. "REINVENTING THE CALENDAR" Mother Earth News Feb. 1 2000: 1 Google This

18. " Mr. Gress's inability to leave any argument unanswered mars what is otherwise a splendid work of intellectual history and makes it extremely difficult at times to follow the thread of his own argument."

Source:   Bowman, James. "From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents" New Criterion 17.6 Feb. 1 1999: 71-72 Google This

19. " Henry Halleck "was good for nothing," John Y. Simon convincingly argues that Lincoln used Halleck as a buffer and lightning rod, deflecting criticism that might otherwise have fallen on the administration, and he further demonstrates that the general accepted this difficult role."

Source:   ROSA, TODD ANTHONY. "Lincoln and His Contemporaries" Civil War History 46.1 Mar. 1 2000: 61 Google This

20. " About the above quotation, Gass wryly comments, "The Elegies will argue otherwise, deciding that `it's difficult to be dead.'" It seems to me allowable for the dead to have as conflicting feelings about death as the living have about life."

Source:   Simon, John. "A great, baggy monster: Rilke's "Duino Elegies"" New Criterion 18.5 Jan. 1 2000: 17 Google This

21. "... appearing otherwise than as it essentially is. DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS As the history of technology reveals, it is difficult to know what unobservable things may or may not eventually be observed in the course of everyday life."

Source:   Schoen, Edward L. "Perceiving an imperceptible God" Religious Studies 34.4 Dec. 1 1998: 433-435 Google This

22. "... and curriculum responsibilities ... you are thrown in, not eased in by student teaching. * It was more work than I imagined, mentally, physically, emotionally. * It wasn't too difficult getting things..."

Source:   Turley, Steve,Nakai, Karen. "Two Routes to Certification: What Do Student Teachers Think?" Journal of Teacher Education 51.2 Mar. 1 2000: 122 Google This

23. " This may well reflect my re-construction of their arguments, but I find it difficult to imagine how any of these authors could argue that they are not interested in such a project."

Source:   Parker, Martin. "Capitalism, Subjectivity and Ethics: Debating Labour Process Analysis" Organization Studies 20.1 Jan. 1 1999: 25 Google This

24. "... Human Rights, and Labor, 30 January 1997. (4.) Fussell (1979) notes how participants in bloody and protracted wars - those enclosed by the abjection of war, find it difficult to imagine things ever ending."

Source:   Humphrey, Michael. "VIOLENCE, VOICE AND IDENTITY IN ALGERIA" Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) 22.1 Jan. 1 2000: 1 Google This

25. " Ishmael: That's very easy to imagine [ldots] lack of food, lack of forests, everything grey, it will be really difficult for you to breathe [ldots] I don't know, I imagine all those things. (Barcelona,..."

Source:   Kasemir, Bernd,Schibli, Daniela,Stoll, Susanne,Jaeger, Carlo C. "Involving the Public in Climate and Energy Decisions" Environment 42.3 Apr. 1 2000: 32 Google This

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