But Britain had complex motives for making its impossible promise.
Part of the problem in the public discourse is that few people alive today can even remember a free market in health care, so its impossible for some even to imagine.
He can try, but the truth is that in technology its almost impossible to know where your fortune is going to be coming from.
The Impossible Project (TIP) wants to make our iPhone photos equally concrete through its extra-simple Impossible Instant Lab.
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Because the majority of its 47, 000 employees are air traffic controllers, it is impossible to cut its budget without affecting controllers, the agency said.
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The fund sought to reduce its exposures but its credit positions were impossible to sell.
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The other problem with basic research is that its benefits are almost impossible to measure.
Key point: Potash is the low cost producer and its mines are virtually impossible to replicate.
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Unless America can convince the IMF to go soft by accepting a rosier forecast, the Europeans may have to lend Greece more money (difficult), forgive some of its debt (almost impossible), or both.
So now Tuvalu is demanding a 1.5C degree target, which the UK Met Office has said in another side event here was virtually impossible given its projections based on the current level of emissions.
For Gazprom to succeed it needs to maintain a patina of respectability and fairness, something that will quickly become impossible if its persists in pricing its gas in such a completely arbitrary and haphazard manner.
But once the litigation train starts down the track, it is hard to stop, and it is impossible to foresee its consequences.
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Its job has become almost impossible, with neither side co-operating.
But it is impossible to imagine its wacky inventor, Kary Mullis, who accepted the Nobel prize dressed in a surfer's drysuit, flourishing in the stuffy constraints of Roche's Basle headquarters.
Nothing that will happen over the next ten years can undo the way the past decade's digitization of entertainment--movies, music and books--has made it difficult or impossible to control its dissemination.
Teammates and opponents say the Redskins' rushing offense is nearly impossible to stop in its most pure form.
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While 233U is an excellent fuel, its harsh radiation makes it nearly impossible to steal, and extremely difficult to use in a weapon.
As I noted yesterday, the plan is almost impossible to analyze given its lack of specifics and, shall we say, flexible use of budget baselines (it uses at least three).
In evaluating each year on its own, it would be impossible for petitioners or the Internal Revenue Service to have known that the proposed residence would never become ready for occupancy.
It will then self-destruct not in flames, its inventors hasten to add, but because contact with the air eventually renders its surface opaque, making it impossible for the laser in a disc player to read the data beneath.
If, as seems likely, the new Homeland Security Department is unable or unwilling to take on this task even though it will be impossible to succeed in its mission without doing so the Congress must fill the vacuum.
Brazil and Argentina later adopted a dollar-peg policy, which made it impossible to pay interest on its debt.
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But, like a dieting commercial featuring impossibly thin models, CES is always promising impossible thinness, particularly on its latest television screens.
The new political venture famously earned a musical endorsement from Alice Sheridan, who sang 'The Impossible Dream' to mark its creation.
This would have made it impossible for AIG to meet its filing requirements as a public company, the consequences of which would have been disastrous.
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China, the paper says, is clear that its incredible growth "would have been impossible were it not for the peace and harmony achieved through decades of hard work" in Asia.
With its wildly over the top mansions, impossible crowd scenes and special effects you might just as easily be watching a movie about young wizards at Hogwarts or the interstellar adventures of the starship Enterprise.
The American Banker Association says its members fear that the rule is too broad and that its complexity will not only make it impossible for banks to comply but also affect their ability to compete globally.
At that moment, the hideous issue of whether British banks remain both too big to fail and too big to save would become a highly relevant one again: it is not utterly impossible that the UK and its huge banks could seem a bigger financial risk than the eurozone.
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