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.
The company says it does not actively police its users to make sure they are not breaking the rules - that would be impossible given the scale of the network - but relies on others reporting abuse.
Or to put it another way, if Italy is shut out of markets - which is not impossible - then the EFSF in its current form will not have even enough money to tide Italy over, let alone keep alive any other eurozone governments that run into difficulties.
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.
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.
Its high-touch service model, though impressive, is not impossible to replicate (British bank customers will get something similar with the opening next month of Metro Bank, one of whose founders was the force behind Commerce Bank).
But the fact that Chelsea, Saturday's vanquished opponent, is on its way to achieving it, proves not just that it isn't impossible, but that City may well be on the right track.
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Depending on who wins next month's presidential election, it is not impossible that Ecuador will end up dropping the dollar and launching its own currency again.
And stopping, or slowing, that virus is not impossible, as the example of Uganda, which has reduced its level of infection from 14% to 8% over the past decade, shows.
The fundamentals all weigh in its favor and if you are not margined, which at this point would be impossible in most cases there is little fear other than fear itself.
This is not to say impossible, but simply that a claim so ridiculous on its face would require a really good story.
Its symptoms include not just bloated government revenues, but an overvalued currency that is making life impossible for firms in the non-oil economy.
This would make it impossible to build a coal plant which did not capture at least some of its CO2.
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Probably won't be Nokia, since they're wedded to Symbian, Samsung already is a Palm licensee (even if they don't seem particularly enthusiastic about it lately), and it seems unlikely (though not impossible) that it'd be SE, since Sony's clearly turned its back on Palm as a platform, which leaves just Motorola and LG.
The adverse reaction might have been less stinging than the response to its messy apology for not apologizing, while the city of Stolberg might have shared the blame for setting an impossible condition to the memorial going forward.
This makes it difficult, if not impossible, under the current rules, for any federal agency to consider tax liabilities as part of its own criteria for grants and contracts.
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