• He said they had looked throughout at the difficulties created by the structure of the legislation but it was impossible to pre-empt the outcome without first knowing the "shape of the evidence".

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Key points: Cash-for-honours hearing

  • 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.

    BBC: UDA mural

  • One thing's clear, however: By sharply reducing the number of overlapping models offered under each brand, Chrysler will make it all but impossible for stand-alone dealers to survive.

    FORBES: Chrysler: Dealers' Turn For Pain

  • So, to be sure, a prime minister could not wake up one morning and decide to hold an election - but it is far from impossible to engineer such a stalemate, thus causing an election.

    BBC: Farewell, Lords reform?

  • This has been done, but it is unsatisfactory because in a cross-country comparison many other things vary along with political institutions: it is impossible to isolate the effect of political arrangements on happiness.

    ECONOMIST: Happiness is a warm vote

  • But it's hard -- no, impossible -- to believe that Congress will cut spending next year on any of these programs from their new, higher levels.

    WSJ: A 40-Year Wish List

  • Since Roberto Martinez arrived at Wigan last summer and since Owen Coyle turned up at Bolton last month, both have tried to get their teams playing passing football, but in these wretched conditions it was nigh-on impossible.

    BBC: Wigan 0-0 Bolton

  • It sounds impossible, but through-wall imaging solutions powered by advanced radar technology are becoming quite accurate enough for law enforcement and military personnel to track the location of people through solid concrete, even noting movement patterns to differentiate between innocents and enemies.

    FORBES: Coming Soon: Amazing Superpowers For The Masses

  • With her cancer treatment costing 2, 500 euros a month -- but a gross monthly salary of just under half of that -- it is impossible for her to cover her medical bills.

    CNN: Sick man of Europe: Life-support drugs run short in Greece

  • "'Ultima IV' is the game that all modern (role-playing games) flow from, but it's also kind of the impossible platonic ideal of a (computer role-playing game), " said retro-gamer Ben Lesnick, 31, of Washington.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • But he'll find supplying it next to impossible--at least right away.

    FORBES: Election 2008

  • "Would take a lot of work to get it working for Minecraft, but not impossible - especially with the new launcher, " Mojang dev Nathan Adams tweeted yesterday regarding the Rift.

    ENGADGET

  • But some would-be independent candidates say it's impossible, with limited resources, to campaign effectively across areas that contain more than one million people and are much larger than parliamentary constituencies or many local authorities.

    BBC: Police officers

  • But he envisions the impossible--even if it all sounds a little bit too much like a happy Hollywood ending.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Sizing the gap

  • Pakistan and the Netherlands face off on Tuesday and a Pakistan win would leave all three teams level on points - but if Pakistan win, it would be impossible for both them and the Dutch to better England's net run rate.

    BBC: Revitalised England beat Pakistan

  • It means they need to make IT infrastructure strategic: value-creating, flexible, easy to consume but impossible to hack, and breathtakingly responsive.

    FORBES: McKinsey Analyzes the Sexy Side of IT

  • But in a rapidly fragmenting currency area, it is well-nigh impossible.

    ECONOMIST: Central banks (1): When the chips are down | The

  • But before a test well has been drilled, it is near-impossible to be sure whether the geological idiosyncrasies that excite oilmen will yield either oil or gas (or sometimes both, and often nothing).

    ECONOMIST: An unconventional bonanza | The

  • Mr Eldergill said many psychopaths go through life committing anti-social behaviour but no serious crimes and it was impossible to predict those who were a real threat to the public.

    BBC: Stone case could prompt law change

  • And I think those that are committed, unless you know, unless one of the candidates gets far enough ahead that the other decides to drop out or that the other doesn't - it's not mathematically impossible but very unlikely that one of the candidates could win, then I think there are discussions.

    NPR: Candidates Aggressively Court Superdelegates

  • Mr Capriles has demanded a vote-by-vote recount, but the CNE said it would be legally impossible to carry out.

    BBC: Venezuela MPs in punch-up over disputed election

  • These obligations are eating up vacation days and discretionary (and not-so discretionary) income, but it's often nearly impossible to say no.

    CNN: Is obligation gobbling up your vacation?

  • 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.

    WSJ: The Quiet Man Sings | Donnybrook | You Can't Take It With You | Theater Reviews by Terry Teachout

  • That may sound impossible, but it apparently works by concentrating the extra light-gathering area of a full-frame lens down to the smaller E-mount sensor area, turning an f4.0 lens into an f2.8 lens, for instance.

    ENGADGET

  • Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.

    BBC: Who, what, why: When is a sex offender not a risk?

  • But all of them in a variety of different publications - meaning it's almost impossible to find out how many vacancies there are across the public sector, what kind of salaries are being offered, how these vary from public sector body to public sector body and whether functions are being duplicated.

    BBC: Cameron's data speech in full

  • In a Facebook discussion, Payam Tamiz wrote that he wanted to settle down with "someone decent" but it was "impossible to find someone with morals and a bit of self-respect".

    BBC: Facebook: Five things to avoid

  • Similarly in business, if a senior biopharma executive was forced every day to step through even of fraction of the actual complexity of the science associated with every product, it would be overwhelming, and make decision-making all but impossible.

    FORBES: Leaders Of Science-Driven Businesses Should Understand...Science

  • But like most of the information coming out of Tehran, it is impossible to verify her name -- Neda -- or the circumstances of her apparent death.

    CNN: Iran media: Council rejects claims of voting irregularities

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