Farther back looms Captain Ahab, who, by being impossible to please, is a nightmare of a boss.
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The feeling of being in solitary is almost impossible for him to describe.
"They were being misled because it was almost impossible to find out the reality of situation, " said Taylor.
It was impossible to untangle what was being said because the speaker felt or believed it from what was merely repetition.
It is fundamentally impossible to be green without being water friendly.
After all, being President is a thankless and nearly impossible job.
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Until recently most people in the waste industry had assumed that it was impossible to reduce the amount being produced and were concentrating on putting the stuff to better use.
"Doubling the complexity of the circuit often times turns it from being a difficult task to a practically impossible one, whereas for us to double the complexity it's really straightforward, " he told BBC News.
According to Mr Gevisser, the extreme prickliness Mr Mbeki commonly shows when faced with criticism is also the result of the terrible frustration he feels at being unable fully to deliver on the impossible expectations of his fellow South Africans.
While news outlets may blur faces, offer warnings to viewers or not even use some images, the vastness of the Internet means that once they are out there -- no matter how horrifying or inappropriate for viewers -- it's next to impossible to stop them from being circulated.
Of course, this being India, the disease of sycophancy is impossible to completely eradicate.
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Physically, it is impossible to wake up another human being from their slumbers without producing, at least momentarily, a startled state of confusion, fear, and sometimes, anger.
However, being mostly Muslim and Malay, it was politically impossible to ignore their plight.
It is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator.
He said Guernsey not being involved made it "more difficult, but not impossible".
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Even if it is, now, almost impossible to imagine these 40, 000 haredim being removed and re-housed, Modiin Illit does, however, remain a settlement.
The IPC said the greater number of events made that "impossible", with more than 500 golds being competed for compared with 300 at the Olympics.
But the bigger point we discussed is that it's almost impossible to talk about race in America without being attacked by people on both the far left and far right.
It is impossible to know how many of the shares being traded on Wednesday were part of the original offering and how many were sold by any of the other participating parties.
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Secondly, the sacrifices being demanded of Tsipras's countrymen are financially and politically impossible.
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.
The birds are being fed locally-bought sprats while fishing in the Caspian is impossible.
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Senator LINDSAY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): What percentage of the country would it be impossible for an American to walk down the street without being afraid of getting shot at or killed?
He went on in great detail about a number of conversations with Skilling where the sorry state of the broadband business was explicitly discussed, and Skilling pressed him to stick to impossible earnings targets, even after cut-backs were being made.
While it may be virtually impossible to survive in office without faith in a supreme being, it remains to be seen how successful the Democratic Party's new confidence in the power of personal testimony will prove to be with a divided and volatile electorate.
The dream of being a writer and the price one has to pay for excellence are impossible to demonstrate or, really, even to fathom.
Farmers and politicians in the East of England say it will be impossible to compete on price if millions of eggs are still being produced using the older, cheaper system.
He has not yet ruled that that ceasefire has ended but it seems he is being brought ever closer to that point - that it is becoming politically impossible to maintain an argument that a cessation is still in place.
Moreover, she says, it's impossible to know whether too many or too few offers are being made and accepted, because the IRS hasn't compiled enough data about who's accepted and rejected, how old their debts are or how much is later collected from those who are turned down.
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