We should feel sorry for the Greeks, because they have been asked to do the impossible over the last two years.
Yet at the end his approach to creative leadership required raising the bar remarkably high, inspiring others to do the impossible, and an almost unwavering ability to focus.
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Even in its present muscular mood, even with its present unchallenged power, an America that is asked to do the impossible, or which promises it, is bound to disappoint.
Notably, however, Pope Francis did not join those Jesuits who became enamored in the last century with "liberation theology, " an attempt to do the impossible and blend Marxism with Christianity.
But the fact of the matter is that if he succeeds in passing such a law, his success will be a Pyrrhic victory because Obama has promised that his plan will do the impossible, and therefore it will unquestionably fail.
Since the EPA is making things up, the rational way to set the mandate would be to fine the cellulosic folks for a lack of mermaids and rebate the money to consumers who are paying higher prices because the oil companies can't do the impossible and buy an imaginary fuel.
But it is to say that rather than try to do the impossible, whereby we try to abolish reality through regulations that won't work, we should make plain that going forward "buyer beware" is real, that no mistakes will be cushioned by politicians, and that just as investors are free to succeed, they're also free to fail.
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.
When you do the math, it is impossible to ignore the disproportionate number of women and minorities who are currently unemployed.
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However, with all these statements, the recurring comment is that this program is impossible to do within the existing procurement system.
Upon cracking open the shell, which was apparently impossible to do without shattering the screen, iFixit found a single assembly that housed all the components.
But in a petition filed last month, Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) asks the agency to refrain from publishing the guidance, or approving generics of any Genentech drugs, because the company claims it would be impossible for the FDA to do so without infringing on Genentech's trade secrets.
If the United States completely eliminated all of its carbon dioxide emissions today (something that is impossible to do), the only thing we would accomplish would be to delay by about five years an equal increase in Chinese emissions.
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This allows the Kurchatov to do things that are impossible in other countries.
But listen carefully to senior officials and the view is that not only is it impossible to stop the crisis quickly, but trying to do so is harmful.
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Finding one who would do so to spend the money elsewhere will be impossible.
And Malley says even if the two sides do reach an agreement on the endgame, getting there in the current environment is virtually impossible.
"The difficulty for me is how to get everybody round the table, it's impossible to do that, " he said.
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Nonetheless, poets like Mr Milosz persist in the impossible task, conscious that they can never do more than suggest a ghostly outline of the original.
The man in charge of welfare has told him and the prime minister that unless they cut benefits for the elderly like winter fuel payments, free TV licences and bus passes - which the PM refuses to do - that sum will prove politically impossible to find.
"So it's impossible to go to work, it's impossible to do your job, without being reminded of the tragedy of 30 years ago, " said the city's current mayor, Gavin Newsom.
Mr Walker and his supporters say it will be impossible to fix all this unless they do away with the need to haggle endlessly with greedy union bosses.
That's, I think, an important lesson for all of us on this day -- are the things that we can try to do that might have seemed impossible but we know are worth doing, and can we apply those principles that we know to be true in our own lives and our society.
He thought it was virtually impossible to do what we were doing in getting promotion to the top flight in consecutive seasons.
Thus firms will have to hire extra staff, reducing unemployment if the law makes it hard or impossible for existing workers to do lots of overtime.
One big problem for the FDA, Hussain alludes to in her letter, is that the large study that Dendreon is conducting might become impossible to do if Provenge is approved.
Many of those kids are planning to go to college and start lives of their own like their classmates, and the last thing their parents want to do is explain why that is impossible.
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