Understanding cannot be forced on someone who chooses to be ignorant.

Contraction of thought.

Contraction of thought.

(idiomatic, often preceded by just) An unfortunate, but unavoidable, event.

(Northern England, idiomatic) Used at the end of a sentence to add emphasis.

A rhetorical question used to express incredulity or surprise: who would have guessed it?; who would have thought that would happen?

simple past tense and past participle of think of England

Paliurus spina-christi, a deciduous shrub or small tree of the Mediterranean and parts of Asia, with spiny shoots.

Acacia luederitzii, a tree of Namibia.

One should not interfere with promising developments in their early stages.