It would be impossible to list all the issues on our minds, so it would be especially impossible for one person to solve all of them.
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Three years of negative stock market returns, coupled with limitations on how the assets can be moved around, have taken so much off principal that it may be all but impossible for the funds to even match the total contributions, let alone show significant appreciation.
Nor are household surveys good at capturing inequality at the very top, not least because it is all but impossible to get the ultra-rich to take part in them.
For all the sparkle, the argument is not impossible to make.
With the current situations it is all most impossible for Google to restore the popularity of Orkut and trying on it will be a mad decision.
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During the decade of the 1970s, it was virtually impossible for all but the largest companies to raise capital.
When the source material is ultrafamiliar and the original film full of top-tier stars, it's all but impossible to survive the comparison game.
This sort of politics is only sustainable so long as the economic pie is actually growing: the minute that growth stagnates, much less turns negative, the government finds it impossible to please all of the competing interests at the same time.
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Yet, as it is free we will have saved our customers money compared with manual mailboxes, making it all but impossible for the authorities to complain.
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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Unfortunately for microscopic-art lovers, the manufacturing difficulties that can arise from these silicon "easter eggs" have made it all but impossible for modern engineers to go all Picasso on the latest Pentium speed demons.
Since there are at least 39, 000 assisted-living facilities in the United States and thousands more smaller, residential care homes, claiming to know all the senior facilities in the country would be nearly impossible.
But once in a while, like now, we stop to focus on what we ask of the people who serve in our stead when the task seems all but impossible.
And Michael, is the feeling that al-Maliki isn't the right man for the job or might it just be the case that the job is all but impossible for any man?
He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
Almost all the good employees have left, the brand makes it almost impossible to hire new ones, and the organization is a disaster internally.
But consider that since the beginning of this century, rapidly accelerating technology has shown a distinct tendency to turn the impossible into the everyday in no time at all.
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But, with interest rates already at zero and the Bank of Japan having already engaged in the biggest quantitative easing effort on the planet, it could be that even with all the will in the world, the task may simply prove impossible.
The cloud made this possible, as it has made it practically impossible for all but a few of the largest players to sell traditional software.
However, conditions imposed by the police had made it impossible for the team to go through all the rest of the material.
It is impossible to anticipate all the possible ways in which regulations can be evaded.
With such recent and painful history it is impossible to please all the people all the time.
Unlike Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu, Mr Blair has also never made the impossible demand that all terrorism must stop before he sticks to his side of the deal.
The loss in court meant Armstrong faced an impossible choice: either go forward under accelerated USADA procedures that made a meaningful defense all but impossible, or wave the white flag and risk being branded guilty as charged.
But questions like these, and many others that are ordinarily impossible for all but the most central participant to answer at the outset, are among the key determinants whether a case is prosecuted criminally, and if so, who gets prosecuted.
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It appears to be impossible to foresee all the twists and turns that force majeure or the acts of God may take, and they invariably turn out the disadvantage of the party to the contract whose function is to pay the money.
But, if a relaxation of the celibacy rule seems improbable, the chances of a female priesthood appear all but impossible, both because it is a matter of doctrine, and because of much more widespread opposition among the faithful.
Once in Greece, Mr Lamhoud faced the same basic problem that has afflicted all the men pooled into the side streets of Athens - it is almost impossible to claim asylum.
Once other runners saw that the impossible was possible after all, times continued to improve on a much more frequent basis.
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