Scenario
a scenario (noun) - one way in which a situation might develop in the future
a worst-case scenario
the worst scenario
a likely scenario
one possible scenario
one future scenario
one alternative scenario
construct a scenaio
imagine a scenario
consider this scenario...
scenario unlikely in the extreme
an optimistic scenario
playing out the various scenarios
a more realistic scenario
a speculative scenario
a whose-been-sleeping-with-whom scenario
the most likely scenario
a nightmare scenario
paint a scenario
imagined scenario
a scenario that draws a comment
this scenario might be readily anticipated
good-versus-evil scenario
this scenario doesn't work
with missing data, constructing various possible scenarios the only alternative
What you're inventing is a whole false little scenario of supposedly future wedded bliss
potential scenarios
envisage potential scenarios
plan modified to include two alternative scenarios
film scenarios
suggest a scenario
consider different scenarios
build up a number of scenarios
common sense and cost will limit the number of scenarios that are worth developing
lying in my bed with all sorts of horrible scenarios running through my head
her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios
construct alternative scenarios, and brood about them
Example sentences:
* So there I was, lying in my bed with all sorts of horrible scenarios running through my head.
* She wasted little time in starting to eat, her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself or disappear quietly to her room.
* We won't worry about all those complicated scenarios, which for all we know may never happen at all.
* The scheme operates by using a number of set scenarios which pose problems or dangers to children, and will include coping with strangers, fires in the home and dangerous situations outside the home.
* There are different scenarios to consider, to use the term that science fiction writers and futurologists use.
* Do you think that all policy must be established on the basis of worst case scenarios?
* A number of potential scenarios can be envisaged.
* The plan has been modified to include two alternative scenarios.
* One would construct alternative scenarios, and brood about them.
* Because common sense (and cost) suggest that there will be a limit to the number of scenarios that are worth developing, the number may be restricted to three.
* He suggested two scenarios.
* He also wrote skits, burlesques, and film scenarios, and was an inspired anthologist.
* As you build up a number of scenarios, you can identify the cells that best show the results of your what-if constructions, and have the results of the various scenarios displayed side by side onscreen or printed.
* Let me describe a possible scenario.
* This scenario is unlikely in the extreme.
* In this kind of scenario the bill for damages potentially runs into millions of pounds.
* In a worst-case scenario the UK Atomic Energy Authority has suggested that up to 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident, with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide.
* Now that would be the worst scenario.
* What you're inventing is a whole false little scenario of supposedly future wedded bliss, just so you can win custody of Kirsty.
* Instead Mr Clinton devoted much time to a nightmare scenario of an America in the year 2,000, struggling under huge interest payments on an escalating government debt.
* For a more realistic scenario of a 1 metre rise in the sea level, cities and resorts built on sandbanks on the eastern and Gulf coasts including Miami, Galveston and Atlantic City would be vulnerable to serious flooding during hurricanes.
* He now knows that there is no scenario more likely than any other.
* A possible scenario is that he had turned to leave the church when he was attacked from behind.
* Eight minutes of swooning, swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario, akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through.
* The most likely scenario is that the Russian embassy asks for extradition and the Swedish government would then take a decision on the request, said an immigration official.
* The plot gets muddied with the whose-been-sleeping-with-whom scenario and much shifty eye gazing.
* It is yet another record sequence for the football club which dominates the football league scenario so completely.
* The scenario painted by some experts is bleak indeed.
* The second scenario is that there would be some degree of Community economic policy-making.
* This leads on to the third scenario, that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level, and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament.
* Relevant data are therefore difficult to identify and scenario building is one of the few approaches available.
* Someone was building a scenario, its purpose being to discredit Belpan's Government and its President.
* To change the metaphor, if airlines offered a similar speculative scenario, only fools would fly.
* The author takes account of the findings of social psychology and of economics in recognising the limitations of the electronic cottage scenario, in which people supposedly stop going out to work in factories and offices.
* Allowing for stations under construction but yet to be commissioned, the board needs no new plant to be in place until 1997 in this scenario for energy growth.
* Another interesting scenario is when a woman who has lived with a man at some stage in her life subsequently opts for marriage, either with this partner or a future one.
* It's a tragic scenario and Prince Charles has such a high sense of duty I am amazed he allowed himself to get them both into this situation.
* Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval, or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario.
* A possible scenario for self-publishers is this: You have been meeting with other writers for some time.
* Indeed a scenario of resources being drawn from the mental hospitals into the non-mental health budget might be readily anticipated.
* I'm sorry to disappoint prospective galactic tourists, but this scenario doesn't work: If you jump into a black hole, you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence.
* Well, it's perhaps a bit structurally ramshackle and thematically clicheed to merit such an accolade, and its good-versus-evil scenario draws extensively on the stock-in-trade of nineteenth-century battle music.
* In between times, a whole psychological scenario is elaborated, in which we piece together the flavour of his anxiety about the pay, his disappointment at not getting the information out of the lady, his interpretation of what she is like (inferred from her appearance, actions, and conversation), his assessment of her son, his misunderstanding of the son's errand, and his recollection of how he came to be involved in the interview.
