Incalculable

As I ponder the incalculable suffering of children, I read the following lines in the poem “Report from the Besieged City,” by the late Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, in a translation by John Carpenter and Bogdona Carpenter.

But the biggest cost will be the most incalculable and unacceptable one: the certain deaths of our fellow Vermonters if forced into the streets and the woods.

Hazardous chemicals, plastic micro-pellets, and now an oil spill -- the sinking X-Press Pearl has done incalculable damage to Sri Lanka's coast and waters.

Lord Arthurson described the predator’s offences as “abhorrent crimes” of the utmost "deviance and depravity”, which had had an “incalculable” impact on his young victim and her family.

The economic trickle-down impacts have far-reaching and incalculable negative results.

The implications of knowing are incalculable, particularly as deep sea mineral prospectors prepare to run tank-like industrial equipment across parts of the seafloor.

To sustain our rivers and lakes for the incalculable benefits to people and planet, we must all coordinate and collaborate our conservation actions, including those for cross-border rivers and lakes.

Wilfully raising the hopes of the people through marketing sophistry is to do incalculable damage to their psyche.

You have done incalculable harm to her.

Colin Gray (pictured left), the father of Georgia school shooter Colt (pictured right), has been sent an 'incalculable number of threats' as he sits in jail for allegedly providing his 14-year-old son with the murder weapon.

In almost incalculable odds, Prof Patel rapidly started to realise his life was in danger from the illness in which he had trained to be a national expert.

The wars in Europe and the Middle East are troubling in new ways, ways beyond the carnage, the incalculable suffering and the buildings and homes fallen to bombs and shells.

All meaningful activity came to a complete halt and incalculable damage was done to all we were trying to do there.

And the personal cost of not doing this is really incalculable.

But he is also barely cognizant of the incalculable anger that boils underneath the surface at the thought that their child will now be split between two parents on two coasts.

However, its authoritarianism is precisely why such precautions are now necessary to check the global cost of Covid-19 in deaths, disruption to daily life and incalculable financial loss to economies, business and individuals.

I owe all of you an incalculable debt, and I hope that I was able to at least match that effort part of the time, and that my work and effort here made your lives easier.

Making an entire country go home and stay home has immense, incalculable costs in terms of well-being and livelihoods.

Officials say the paintings are of incalculable artistic value, but some could carry price tags well into six figures.

On the other, having Trump in the Oval Office is a strategic asset of incalculable value.