Botanists, scientists who deal in precise terms that seem to cover every imaginable circumstance, don't have a specific word other than native, meaning a plant that evolved and is native to someplace.

In Tudor England, two boys are born on the same day in the most different circumstances imaginable.

Alistair Cooke, the genteel and erudite journalist and television host who seems to have a graceful comment for every imaginable circumstance, turns 80 years old tomorrow.

The Senator said he had great respect for "those employees who work with psychatric patients under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable."

"She was without question an innocent civilian who was caught in the worst circumstance imaginable," Mr. Howard, the district attorney, said at a news conference on Thursday.

Because of that, his person must be sacrosanct, whatever I may think of his policies of the moment, under any but the most desperate of imaginable circumstances.

But some other cities that use Compstat have not been able to continue pushing down crime, while New York City has, under some of the most daunting circumstances imaginable.

The crawler was a versatile vehicle adapted for moving through any imaginable climatic circumstances.

There are those who find Salgado's prints - beautiful, luminous, elegant, even magical - at variance with the content, which is often of people in the most desperate, horrifying circumstances imaginable.

Incredibly, that happened on Sunday, with a young blind Japanese girl completing a 26.2 mile race in Hawaii in some of the more inspiring circumstances imaginable.