The essential problem is that the economics of the situation demands politically impossible things and the politics of the situation demand economically impossible things.
If Obama can back the Republicans into looking like they pushed the U.S. off the cliff he will get them to agree his impossible demands baked into a form of Cliff Mutual Destruction Pact, get it delivered, secure a massive rebalance moment and blame the downside on the opposition.
Second, Britain has an impossible list of demands if there is a new treaty.
But they are struggling with a rigid new management template, the legacy of a chaotically-designed site and community hostility, their own inexperience, and demands to generate clicks and revenue that may prove impossible to meet.
In the mid-1980s, when America last had a huge trade deficit, demands for new protection (mainly against Japan) proved impossible to resist.
When users are asked for the impossible, they will usually find ways to circumvent those demands.
Issuing such demands will be seen to indicate a lack of mutual respect, without which it is impossible to develop the mutual trust that everyone wants to see develop between the two countries.
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Yet, in order to avoid these cuts, he demands higher taxes that would destroy as many or more private sector jobs and that make any deal impossible.
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Then there is the irrepressible Miss Jayalalitha, whose demands have ranged from the unreasonable (shifting the court that would try her for corruption) to the impossible (dismissing the government of her home state, Tamil Nadu).
These standards are hard and fast rules that make it impossible for, say, an airline-mechanic crew at LaGuardia Airport to give into the demands of impatient pilots and passengers when something appears to be not quite right with the landing gear on a departing plane.
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With consumer demands always rising (for Retina Displays, faster processors, more memory, etc.), it may be impossible to turn the iPad Mini into an equally profitable device.
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