But I cannot imagine a scenario in which Microsoft could actually come out on top in 2012.
It was easy to imagine a scenario under which some of those troops would not even be deployed.
Imagine a scenario where two brothers, three years apart in age, both retire when they are 62 years old.
You can imagine a scenario under which Obama and the Democrats are looking quite good come the 2010 midterms.
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Imagine a scenario where children spent less time in a classroom and more time doing everything they wanted to instead.
You know, based on your reporting of this situation, I can imagine a scenario where people move to these areas in order to get away from those kinds of conversations.
"Imagine a scenario where you go to Ikea and buy a chair, put it in your room and it self-assembles, " said Carlo Olguin, principal research scientist at the software firm.
"I can imagine a scenario where winning two years of secrecy gave the Mossad time to organise alternative arrangements for whatever they thought was threatened by this guy's transgression, " he says.
Short of visiting every library in every major technology center in the world (and perhaps going even further than that), it is very difficult to imagine a scenario where a person can truly feel comfortable that a patent is truly valid.
"I can't imagine a scenario in which we would willingly as a country walk away from what would be undoubtedly one of the largest - if not the largest - industries in the world over the next several decades, " Mr Silver said.
It's easy to imagine a scenario at a party where users are standing, phones at the ready, to join a sharing session, but everyone's being held up by a single individual who received the invitation before them and isn't paying attention to their phone.
You could imagine a scenario where AARP pays Tripping a fee to set up its own page on the site so that retirees on the road can connect with local AARP members for a round of golf, a place to stay, or recommendations for quiet restaurants.
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As we noted above, the mirroring capability is dropped when handling video, but that's unlikely to be an issue because we can't imagine a usage scenario where you'd need to see a video feed on both displays.
"We can't imagine a more nightmarish scenario, " said Darren McKinney, spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association.
But given the tax-related ideas floating in Congress, it is very difficult to imagine that such a scenario would include broadly dangerous, anti-growth tax increases.
Imagine the scenario: a plumber working for a company is made redundant so decides to set up on his own.
Imagine, for a moment, a different scenario.
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David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play forces us to think about a scenario no parent wants to imagine.
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But the worry is what one economist called "The Perfect Storm" scenario -- a jump in oil prices accompanied by declining stock prices and worsening economies overseas -- a scenario that's no longer so hard to imagine.
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He shuddered to imagine at the scenario in which Google actually kept the Moto handset business as a stand-alone business (as opposed to shutting it down quickly).
You can imagine how overwhelmed food supplies, hospitals and emergency personnel would be in such a worst-case scenario.
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