Please give us some complete sentences to consider. You should always do this.
1) ‘This
could/might happen in Ohio if we’re not careful’, say Cleveland Clinic doctor, nurse fighting coronavirus in New York hospital. (
https://www.cleveland.com/coronavir...ighting-coronavirus-in-new-york-hospital.html)
2) But these tiny victories are achieved only by having very low expectations of what justice should be and what it should look like for African-Americans. Police have killed 664 people in the US as of Wednesday, but only a handful are indicted in any given year. So, there’s a lot of bad revealed by this video, and the reaction to it, which outweighs anything vaguely optimistic. It’s bad that we are, yet again, being inured to the image of black death. It’s bad that the University of Cincinnati (whose cop killed DuBose) cancelled classes in advance of the grand jury decision out of “an abundance of caution” – in other words, they feared a riot. That’s an insulting presumption further perpetuated by both Deters and Mayor John Cranley. And it was was really bad that Deters denied reality when he said: “This doesn’t happen in the United States. This
might/could happen in Afghanistan.”
(
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-dubose-killing-dark-cloud-grim-silver-lining)
3) The police said they have arrested more than 200 people for violence, robbery and rape. Many of the foreigners are not surprised at what has been unleashed against them. Hostility to Africans from other parts of the continent has long been rife in South Africa but has escalated with the arrival of the Zimbabweans who are popular with local employers because many are well educated, speak good English and are seen as working harder than South Africans.
Seven people were murdered in March, including a Somali, Zimbabweans and Pakistanis, in attacks near Pretoria. In January, two Somali shop owners were killed in the Eastern Cape.
"They always hated us," said Muzenda. "We thought this
might/could happen." (
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/20/zimbabwe.southafrica)
4) Some people went further than Houck, and said that they thought the structure would fail. In 1980, for example, a study published by the Water Resources Research Institute, at Louisiana State University, described Old River as “the scene of a direct confrontation between the United States Government and the Mississippi River,” and—all constructions of the Corps notwithstanding—awarded the victory to the Mississippi River. “Just when this will occur cannot be predicted,” the report concluded. “It
could/might happen next year, during the next decade, or sometime in the next thirty or forty years. But the final outcome is simply a matter of time and it is only prudent to prepare for it.” (
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya)
5) I once asked Fred Smith, a geologist who works for the Corps at New Orleans District Headquarters, if he thought Old River Control would eventually be overwhelmed. He said, “Capture doesn’t have to happen at the control structures. It
could/might happen somewhere else. The river is close to it a little to the north. That whole area is suspect. (
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya)
6) In his diary about his year on bail Love, Paul Gambaccini, he ends with a warning: “They said it couldn't happen here. It did. It happened to me. Unless there is reform, it will happen again. It
could/might happen to you. What are you going to do about it?” Love, Paul Gambaccini.” (
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...d-man-suspicion-sexual-offences-a6683986.html)
7) Speaking this morning to the BBC’s Today programme, one pupil in north London said he was fully aware of the concerns around a repeat of the attacks that killed 17 in France two weeks ago.
“Sometimes I’m very worried about the current situation because after happening to Paris it
could/might happen to England,” he said. (
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-event-paris-style-terror-attack-9990197.html)
8) Dubinsky spoke poignantly about being the unwilling subject of trade speculation, not just this year but in previous years as well.
“It always seems to be me,” Dubinsky said. “Maybe this year was a little bit different in that I haven’t had a great year statistically, so maybe that makes the decision easier for somebody. It’s nothing I can control, so I certainly didn’t lose any sleep over it. It’s part of our business.
“There’s guys who have been traded seven or eight times and I’ve never been traded. So it
could/might happen. I won’t even go there.” (
https://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/counting-down-to-the-n-h-l-trading-deadline/)
9) Mr. Seward: It’s my understanding that the Department of Homeland Security’s incident response team discovered that oil rigs are already under attack. But the fact that I can sit here and imagine scenarios where a key component, like water, might not be available to nuclear reactors is disconcerting. There are plenty of scenarios where the point at which two different parts of critical infrastructure intersect — like oil and gas pipelines, nuclear plants and water treatment facilities — could be jeopardized. All those things are interconnected. Our ability to have the society we have depends on the interconnection of those systems. An attack
could/might happen tomorrow. It
could/might happen next year. Or it
could/might happen 10 years from now. There’s no predicting. (
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012...unds-off-on-failed-cybersecurity-legislation/)
10) The threat would become sharper still if Ukip evolved, forging a message that looked left on economics and right on culture – with, say, the party’s deputy leader, Paul Nuttall, taking over at the top. In continental Europe, similar movements have thrived, even supplanting the traditional parties of the working class. That
could/might happen here. It
could/might happen to Labour. (
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/15/ukip-party-labour-heartlands-left)
NOTE: Sentences (1), (4-10) were originally written with "could" and sentences (2) and (3), with "might". For further reference, see:
https://ludwig.guru/s/sometimes+it+could+happen