"The idea that hackers are going to bring the nation to its knees is too far-fetched a scenario to be taken seriously, " asserts James Lewis, a former State Department and Commerce Department official.
Clean energy seemed pretty far-fetched to a lot of people back then, but Neal figured there might be something to it.
In fact, it's not far-fetched to imagine a perfect storm in which low-priced oil coincides with climbing natural gas prices just as a drought hits the Midwest, ravaging the corn crop.
The comparison was always a bit far-fetched, but her standing as chancellor in a grand coalition renders it obsolete.
If we end up with wearable computing and high-definition Google Glasses, this may not be such a far-fetched concept.
Just 10 companies have access to this upper echelon, but everyone else can spring for the more down-to-Earth Pro tiers today -- and with the new discounts, that's not a far-fetched possibility.
In 1986, a luxury resort on a lunar finger of land in Oman or a luxury cruiser plying the headwaters of the Amazon was as far-fetched as the notion that there was a New World out there must have seemed to contemporaries of Columbus.
That may sound like a far-fetched notion, or maybe even an inappropriate one.
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Ms Tripp's sympathisers responded with a far-fetched attack on the sources of the reporter, Jane Mayer of the New Yorker.
It's not a far-fetched idea: we already know it's coming to Verizon, but the exact pricing and on-sale date have yet to be revealed.
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Do the movie's sometimes far-fetched developments (charitable prostitutes, a twister) trivialize the plight of real war veterans?
But many corporate realities today started with a seemingly far-fetched use of imagination and the audacity and acumen to believe in something beyond the status quo.
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Sure, that last one may sound a bit far-fetched, but with thousands of companies competing for your attention, there's no telling what crazy implementations we'll see this January.
It made me want to do something different, a bit far-fetched, something that no-one would expect me to do - that's why I decided to go to the north pole.
If one of the monolines were to lose its cherished AAA rating a prospect that no longer looks far-fetched huge numbers of securities would be adversely affected, since they cannot have a higher rating than the company insuring them.
The idea of unlocking a smartphone, opening a texting app and then typing something while asleep may sound far-fetched, but the "sleep-texting" term is a little misleading.
As a consequence, it should not be far-fetched to expect that in the near future mobile ads will become at the center of a very large and profitable social enterprise for Facebook.
Professor Hal Whitehead, a researcher from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, who studies whales, was impressed by the data, but said the suggestion that whales might be herding a ball of squid may be a little "far-fetched".
According to experts like Eric Topol, director and chief academic officer at Scripps Translational Science Institute, technology like this -- and a slew of other medical wonders -- isn't so far-fetched.
Here, as Buffet notes, stands Grover Norquist, champion of a fond (and very far-fetched) dream.
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In 1937 the notion of a black president was so far-fetched that Gallup did not ask people how they felt about it.
Paying for gas and lunch with a wristwatch isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
With Argo, Affleck has delved into a true story that seems so far-fetched that it plays like Hollywood fiction.
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Today, the notion that stability is a realistic aim is even more far-fetched.
But a return to past glories looks far-fetched.
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It might sound far-fetched but young English inventor Giles Cardoso has already made it a reality.
It's not far-fetched to think that hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel a year and hundreds of lives could be saved by miniature, impregnable nuclear reactors that could be remote-detonated by satellite if they ever fell into enemy hands.
The story might sound far-fetched, and anywhere else it would be, but Namibia is a land of diamonds like no other.
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