However, conditions imposed by the police had made it impossible for the team to go through all the rest of the material.
While most of the freight will have been flown straight on from last weekend's season-opener in Qatar, the cloud of ash has created a no-fly zone over much of northern and central Europe and made it impossible for many team personnel to reach Japan.
"I loved winning, but the opportunity to be with my old coach and lead a new team was impossible to resist, " he says.
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International travel made it almost impossible no matter your team.
But BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse says that if contact with Mir is lost for an extended period, it will start to spin, and it would become impossible for a rescue team to dock.
With the change came new opportunities for internal and external training and initiatives that would have been impossible with the old management team, from both lack of interest and capability.
The unit did kill six penalties, Lundqvist made 29 saves and fans heckled Sidney Crosby, but New York was shut out for the first time this season, and it's impossible to win if your team can't score a goal.
Having recently left the government, Schnitzler can speak relatively freely about how his team routinely transformed the impossible into the inevitable.
At this point it became impossible to separate what the Bush team was doing to fan the flames and the sheer heat of the inferno.
At this point it is impossible to predict the revenue each team is going to rake in from their new stadiums because it is very early in the game of selling tickets, suites and advertising.
For example, do you want to fire up a team to strive to reach an apparently impossible goal?
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"They'll probably want everyone to play like they did, and that's impossible, " said Maxwell, whose 1984 Celtics team fielded seven players who later became head coaches.
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In any case, it is nearly impossible to gauge exactly how an intangible like chemistry affects a team's ability to win.
Barcelona now faces an "almost impossible" task to make the final and defender Pique admits his team was completely outplayed.
First, I wonder how many ultimately successful drugs resulted from the utter desperation (so familiar to entrepreneurs) of a team needing to find a creative solution to a seemingly impossible problem.
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This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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But other biotechs with impossible dreams should take note: Orexigen chief executive Michael Narachi and his team seem to have handled this FDA discussion perfectly, without whining or blaming the agency for its standards.
"We want to show that with clean technologies, a passionate team and a far-reaching pioneering vision, one can achieve the impossible, " Dr Piccard said at the announcement of the mission in March.
Using an ingenious genetic tracing technique, in 2001 two members of Buck's research team, Zhihua Zou and Lisa Horowitz , did something that had seemed impossible: They discovered a map in the olfactory cortex.
That time deficit was a virtually impossible margin to overcome in the flat, short final stage because Landis and his team watched the Spaniard closely to make sure he didn't try to break away.
Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie Cazares with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, at Fort Bliss, Texas, said it was impossible to know what, if any, changes it would mean for women in the military.
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Because of this, Ross and his team had to light each scene for both color and black and white, a nearly impossible process.
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The Birmingham boss also added that he felt Ferguson had been placed in an impossible situation following his involvement in the 'Boozegate' scandal that resulted in him and then-Ibrox team-mate Allan McGregor being banned from the Scotland squad.
Lucescu's half-time teamtalk must have focused on damage limitation, but against a Barca team committed to wave after wave of attack and with a monopoly on possession it was an almost impossible task.
Their inconsistency is frustrating and makes it impossible to predict how much further they will go in the Cricket World Cup, but Andrew Strauss and his team-mates can take a deep breath and just start again.
In "Now You See Me" (May 31), a team of magicians, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco, stages impossible-seeming heists.
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