If, after the process of considering amendments, it proves impossible to reach agreement on a non-financial bill, then the bill may be lost.
However, such an agreement proved impossible in the hyper-political climate of an election year, and the government-wide cuts opposed by both sides now are set to take effect.
The Senate cast more votes to break filibusters last year than in the entire 1950s and '60s combined, making it nearly impossible to come to agreement on key legislation.
In early December everyone said it was impossible that there would be agreement on the tax bill.
But without a final lease agreement it is impossible to determine what the precise increase in revenue and value will be for the Falcons.
Gerrymandered districts produce extremist politicians, among whom agreement is all but impossible since two-thirds majorities are needed to pass budgets and impose new taxes.
In some states, a court will dissolve a limited liability corporation (LLC) in accordance with the terms of the operating agreement if it has become impossible to operate the business.
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He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
Now, in the past, an agreement such as this would have been considered impossible.
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But the Democrats appointed a group of hardcore leftists to the Supercommittee, which means that it is virtually impossible to get the necessary seven votes for a good agreement.
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However, changing a property settlement agreement and the division of assets is next to impossible.
For all Ms Mowlam's verve, agreement still seems improbable, but it no longer seems absolutely impossible.
Despite Mr Rifkind's criticism, it is still not impossible, even were Britain's Tories to stay on, that agreement could be reached in Amsterdam.
With agreement on creating any new structures to deal with the past apparently impossible, both the Stormont politicians and the Northern Ireland Office may be tempted to shrug their shoulders and conclude that the current piecemeal system is the only option.
And Malley says even if the two sides do reach an agreement on the endgame, getting there in the current environment is virtually impossible.
It was sidestepped by a deal to draw up an inter-governmental agreement outside the EU treaties (messier in legal terms, but not impossible).
I've got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this, and I think it's not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by.
The fact that we even call the type of agreement that adequately starts to address our multiple needs a "grand bargain" as if it were some impossible dream reveals much about the current state of play in our nation's capital.
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