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• Would there have been a Limehouse Declaration from his London home to launch the breakaway Social Democratic Party Another imponderable is how I would subsequently have fared against Alan Clark, the right-wing Tory and celebrated diarist, who won Owen's Plymouth seat in 1974 after David had moved to safer ground.
• From the time he took up his headquarters on the hill at Cassel, he became “a desk man”; it was no longer his function to execute orders; thenceforth he had the far more trying duty of issuing orders—a truly awful responsibility and one which demands much solitude, much soul-searching as well as map-pondering and other weighing of the ponderable which is so easily off-set by the imponderable, the unguessable. —  Foch the Man
• Even more imponderable are questions about Palin's future priorities. —  Merced Sun-Star: front
• The real imponderable, though, is whether the US, in the crunch, would rush to defend the South with all the arms it needed, as well as an infusion of troops, if North Korea were to take advantage of America's relationship with Israel and the Middle East to stage a surprise attack. —  Asia Times Online
• Another imponderable is the financial health of George Gillett's portfolio. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts

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