Most of these movies -- and their protagonists -- were governed by seemingly impossible deadlines.
Against enormous odds, as William Gildea recalls in his episodic biography, Gans had by 1906 achieved the seemingly impossible.
On the trail, yak trains amble down from higher villages, and porters sprint past with seemingly impossible weights hanging from their heads.
She immediately felt a parallel between the boat and her day job: that technology can make the seemingly impossible possible.
This seemingly impossible scheme works, thanks to a sinking fund that compensates lenders if the two indexes go in opposite directions.
They envision themselves as champions and winners, and then they conduct the actions to help them achieve their seemingly impossible goals.
From the seemingly impossible emerged the political will and determination to overcome extreme forms of nationalism and create a federation of Europe.
The Stevens specialize in turning up seemingly impossible-to-find bottles, and in slipping their clients behind the velvet ropes for private winery visits.
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On the other hand, companies like eBay process up to 50 petabyes of data a day, a seemingly impossible task for most organizations.
Alexander the Great, triumphant in so many seemingly impossible battles, made a fundamental error when he took his army from Persia to Afghanistan and India.
Ms. Hodge's seemingly impossible task is to keep traffic flowing smoothly.
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Costco is so good at the grocery business, he adds, it has succeeded at doing the seemingly impossible, stealing customers from grocery chains operating at super-thin margins.
Under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, the U.S. Federal Reserve has done the seemingly impossible: It has managed to create inflation and deflation at the same time.
At least Animals offers some plausible explanation as to how real political families operate, and the personal and professional dynamics that explain the seemingly impossible behavior and decisions.
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When I think of all the tremendous, seemingly impossible feats made possible by entrepreneurs, I am amazed that more has not been done to reinvent our education system.
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Never mind that Tony Blair had given him a seemingly impossible brief: the prime minister wanted an appointed Lords, not an elected one, perhaps obstinately opposed to the government's plans.
The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.
First, I wonder how many ultimately successful drugs resulted from the utter desperation (so familiar to entrepreneurs) of a team needing to find a creative solution to a seemingly impossible problem.
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In a lean fiscal environment, organizations look for ways to take existing resources and use the latest advances and tools to do the seemingly impossible: improve and expand services while cutting costs.
Latching on to a pass down the right from Elano but at a seemingly impossible angle trapped against the byeline, he produced a swerving screamer that bent in with goalkeeper Ri Myong-guk standing a fraction too far off his post.
In his brilliant 1991 design for Frankfurt's Commerzbank, the tallest office building in Europe, he brought off the seemingly impossible feat of building a supertower that could use natural ventilation (as against fuel-gobbling air conditioning) during 60% of the year.
We assume the Moais were built for worship, and we think that their movement over seemingly impossible distances required a lot of wood, so much so that the entire island was eventually deforested and its eco-system ruined, no longer capable of supporting human life.
As the back-to-school season kicks into high gear, the pressure and anxiety finally starts to subside for young people (and often their parents), who started this journey over a year ago, competing to beat seemingly impossible odds for a spot at a selective college.
Marty Mornhinweg has all the biographical factors to mark him for Belichick-like success in his next job and did the seemingly impossible, in making Michael Vick an accurate passer, but mention his name and images of his 5-27 tenure with Detroit come to mind.
This was to be the pattern of his short life in and out of poorly paid jobs, squeezing out the meagrest of livings, spongeing off family and friends anything to keep body and soul together as he pursued the seemingly impossible task of living as a poet.
The global economic crisis underscores other Israeli advantages, including a vibrant democracy, the rule of law -- particularly individual equality before the law -- and a still potent can-do tradition that stems from the way the country was founded and its survival against seemingly impossible odds.
Yes, there is a time to pivot, to cut your losses and to move forward but for a true entrepreneur (and for most every successful leader) that point is much further along the realm of the seemingly impossible than any other participant or observer would have thought.
Her lack of exposure to top management and influential colleagues would seemingly make it impossible to get noticed and promoted.
With its elaborate system of narrow passes, viaducts and rock-hewn tunnels, the Swiss rail network has set the standard for more than a century, since its engineers first laid tracks up and down the steepest slopes and seemingly defied the impossible.
Name me one specific instance where you can impact the rising cost of health care as President of the United States by cutting tens of billions in spending without needing Congressional approval, which seemingly is next to impossible?
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