• It has been impossible to establish a statistical match between the use of ASBOs and falls in anti-social behaviour, he says.

    ECONOMIST: Some new tools for fighting yobs, and fresh questions

  • But people close to the company say it has been impossible to ignore the negative effect of the U.K. tabloid scandal on the rest of the company.

    WSJ: Rupert Murdoch Has Change of Heart on Publishing Business

  • Because this has historically been the case, it has been impossible to build any type of continuity, impact or momentum when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent.

    FORBES: Diversity Management is Outdated and Demands a New Approach

  • It adds that the data on serious adverse reactions in this kind of trial has not been properly collated, so that it has been impossible to say on past evidence how often they do go wrong.

    BBC: Monday, 23 April, 2007

  • So far it has been impossible to decide if these arrowheads were the tools of new people from Asia who replaced their dead cousins, or of a remnant of Clovis people who changed their technology and survived.

    ECONOMIST: Mass extinctions

  • Furthermore, compliance with the RoHS directive(1) and REACH regulations(2) regarding the safety of chemicals in ICT products has made it challenging to control the quality of recycled plastics, and until now it has been impossible to reuse recovered plastic in a computer bodies.

    ENGADGET: Fujitsu making laptops from unwanted CDs and DVDs

  • TV-stations, and the most distant hydrogen clouds, lies a universe full of objects and phenomena that it has been hard or impossible to study until now.

    ECONOMIST: Radio telescopes

  • And it's - at least the administration's response has been, administratively, it would be absolutely impossible to administer that and to monitor in each grocery store what people are buying with their food stamps and that they think a better approach is to just have this better education.

    NPR: Child Hunger: Nutritious Food Tough To Afford

  • But before a test well has been drilled, it is near-impossible to be sure whether the geological idiosyncrasies that excite oilmen will yield either oil or gas (or sometimes both, and often nothing).

    ECONOMIST: An unconventional bonanza | The

  • It is, quite simply, nearly impossible for workers to get rid of a union once it has been certified as their monopoly bargaining representative.

    FORBES: A Deep Secret That Labor Unions Don't Want Workers to Know

  • And I simply argue for the Republican Party to try to become something different in the next election, different than it has been for generations, is just about an impossible task.

    NPR: Conservatively Speaking, Things Look Bad

  • And, though much has been done to digitize content, it is impossible to scratch the surface, especially on the budget afforded to libraries today and in times past.

    FORBES: Will Public Libraries Become Extinct?

  • Sangamo and other researchers have worked to fix some of this errant DNA editing, but Carroll says it is impossible to know if all unintended cutting has been eliminated.

    FORBES: A Whole New Crop

  • There has been no word so far from the Syrian government and it is impossible to verify the activists' account.

    BBC: US recognises Syria opposition coalition says Obama

  • The idea that the Ulster Unionists would ultimately find it impossible to stand up to a charismatic prime minister has also been disproved.

    ECONOMIST: Parking the process | The

  • It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004.

    ENGADGET: Palm Pre review

  • Absent the latter, it will be impossible to understand either the source of much of what has been dubbed "extremism" in the Muslim-American community, or the reason that community has been so deficient in systematically, comprehensively and consistently helpfully responding to extremists in its midst.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: King of the Hill

  • Califonia's credit rating has been downgraded to the lowest of any US state, making it almost impossible to borrow money.

    BBC: California approves budget bill

  • In fact, because of family reunion, it is impossible to prevent more migrants coming in, but that has recently been made harder with a range of petty and illiberal rules.

    ECONOMIST: Is a large flow of migrants a good or a bad thing?

  • But you cannot say he has been treated harshly, because people will look at his record, and it is impossible to argue against the fact that it was time for a change.

    BBC: Berti Vogts

  • The snowball has been rolled so far down the deep snowy Alps that it is now 20 feet tall and nearly impossible to roll any further.

    FORBES: Market Holds Breath Ahead Of European Summit

  • The WCS spectrum, on the other hand, has been dogged by interference issues with nearby satellite signals owned by Sirius XM, making it near impossible to get any kind of wireless broadband to work on those frequencies.

    FORBES: AT&T's LTE Prospects Bolstered By FCC Chairman's Support

  • In retailing , a law that made it almost impossible for big shops to set up without the permission of their would-be competitors has been progressively relaxed.

    ECONOMIST: Deregulation in Japan

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