Taking such smart steps is an essential key to making the impossible possible.
She immediately felt a parallel between the boat and her day job: that technology can make the seemingly impossible possible.
However, we are at a watershed period of political history where African-Americans have participated at higher rates than others in the presidential election and by doing so changed political reality in a country historically torn by racial strife, making the impossible possible.
To make matters worse, hedge funds were bragging about uncanny returns, making the impossible seem possible.
Once other runners saw that the impossible was possible after all, times continued to improve on a much more frequent basis.
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Surely, as computers increase in speed and storage capacity, the impossible will become possible?
When I think of all the tremendous, seemingly impossible feats made possible by entrepreneurs, I am amazed that more has not been done to reinvent our education system.
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They know automatically what to do because he sets the tone of political discourse and defines the politically possible and impossible.
The impossible has always seemed possible and that is solely a result of all the great teachers and learning experiences I have been exposed to along the way.
It is impossible to anticipate all the possible ways in which regulations can be evaded.
Given the number of Android handsets floating around, it's not really possible (read: Impossible) for the company to appease everyone, especially since the length of the device's neck needs to be altered based on the phones' screens, meaning they can't just make a modular holder.
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Both these features make writing and enforcing contracts which take every possible eventuality into consideration difficult, or even impossible.
On this mission in particular, the only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The cloud made this possible, as it has made it practically impossible for all but a few of the largest players to sell traditional software.
This is a robust experience designed for users who appreciate the level of tracking and analysis possible with the desktop version of Quicken, impossible with other mobile applications.
While he strives to say as little as possible about upcoming products, it can be impossible for him to avoid dropping hints about upcoming "product shifts" when discussing Apple's prospects with investors (see "Apple Tips Its Hand").
Corporate clients might be harder to come by but would probably be drawn from sectors that deal with material sciences, particularly engineering or metallurgy, where a low-gravity environment would make possible types of research and production that are impossible or prohibitively expensive on Earth.
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But household debts have fallen from 98% of GDP to 87% of GDP, as homeowners have handed back the keys of their houses to lenders and reneged on the debts (which is possible in much of the US, but almost impossible in the UK).
But until it's possible to know how big that liability is, it is impossible to judge the impact on Merck--and on other big drug companies.
Marshalling over 400, 000 men and woman across America for this single, focused and determined goal, Nasa's philosophy borrowed from another of Clarke's laws - "the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible".
It was not possible to use DNA evidence to identify the head because it was impossible to find a sample from it that could be guaranteed to be uncontaminated.
"What might be possible in theory is, from a technological point of view, blatantly impossible, " he says.
It is possible to earn a profit and be responsible, but it is nearly impossible to do both perfectly.
"It's possible to reinforce control on that border, but closing it is virtually impossible, " said analyst Mohamed Chafik Mesbah, a retired officer of the Algerian army.
While it's impossible to predict how a jury will judge Lay and Skilling, it's definitely possible to assess how S-Ox is working.
These impossible situations can drag on and on long past a point you would feel it was possible for them to continue.
Every manager knows in his heart of hearts that it is highly unlikely or indeed impossible that the client will receive the performance he or she is led to believe is possible.
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Recognize that in the beginning stage of your idea there is no possible way to truly predict exactly what the future will hold because it is impossible to have every future fact you need to know.
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But for students who drop out of college without finishing a degree, student debt is the worst type of debt possible: a long-term financial burden with no utility that is practically impossible to shed in bankruptcy.
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