What they're doing now would have been impossible a year ago...
Such a compromise seemed impossible a few months ago.
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Changing the profile of a workforce is almost impossible when a company is shrinking and not expanding - but despite this, Harland's did take steps to improve its appeal to Catholics - and make itself more accessible.
With a fiat dollar, it is impossible for A and B to know exactly what, in terms of real value, will be repaid.
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But as a practical matter, it is impossible for a health professional to ascertain conclusively whether or not a patient is suffering from back pains or sad feelings.
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And since teams operate under a salary cap, it would be impossible for a rich owner in a big market to hoard all the expensive talent.
Even if the Kremlin dropped its historic opposition to limiting these arms in a new accord, verification would be impossible as a practical matter and the price high in terms of further reducing the "nuclear umbrella" U.S. tactical nukes provide our allies.
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The match was turning into a gripping affair, something Newcastle fans might have thought impossible just a few weeks ago.
Railways, fast steamships and then the telegraph made it possible to expand, police and govern a vast, sprawling empire in ways that had previously been impossible with a relatively small army and administrative class.
And I hope that people are realizing that a country like Chile is able to achieve goals that were perceived as impossible only a few years ago.
Given the sizable cost of individual bonds, a well-diversified portfolio of government, corporate and foreign bonds is all but impossible for a small investor.
From the start, I knew my list had to be that of a visionary: impossible tasks, a maze of places and acts that required my full participation and a belief in the magical qualities of the universe.
Yet it is virtually impossible for a chemical plant to eliminate all airborne waste.
Such task would have seem impossible just a decade ago is actually looking pretty promising.
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It is impossible as a practical matter to provide for separation of the sexes in frontline positions.
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Moving up the global value chain is impossible without a dramatic overhaul of its current education system.
At present, it is impossible for a member of a married couple to change gender and remain legally married.
It is impossible for a country to have no comparative advantage in anything.
Back then, before Gutenberg, it was quite literally impossible for a scholar to afford the books that he might require.
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The report also talks about denial of service attacks which could render communications difficult or impossible within a localized or larger geographic area.
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"Many of the major routes are passable with care but the minor country roads are impossible without a four-wheel drive vehicle, " he said.
And it can be impossible without a state that operates at a minimum level of efficiency, which many tropical countries fall short of.
Disentangling the two relationships is impossible unless a third variable with the right statistical properties, a so-called instrument, can be found and exploited.
Mr. Immelt expressed his view that it is almost impossible on a cost basis to justify investing in nuclear power plants for the future.
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It is now practically impossible for a bank executive to publicly oppose reform when there is so much public outrage about Wall Street excess.
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The department said the cranes had already exceeded their working life and continuing to repair them would be almost impossible at a viable cost.
And patents are virtually impossible for a small business to enforce.
But unlike solid-mass tumors, glioblastomas have tiny tentacles that spread into the brain, making it impossible for a surgeon to remove every bit of the tumor.
The combined shares of U.S. and European nations in each organization make it nearly impossible for a candidate from other nationalities to break the unwritten compact.
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