Brooks is convinced, or he was in 2006, that thumos is so profoundly important it is not really possible fully to understand social and political life without it.

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For instance, game-making is iterative: it is possible to market-test a game and then modify it, and to do so repeatedly during the game's development cycle something that is not really possible with a film.

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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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"At this point it's really not possible to recover the body, " Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill said.

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Insisting that it's simply not possible for a woman to really love a man whose wealth caught her eye is very deeply sexist.

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And it's very exciting and very interesting and not possible over the last 100 years really.

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We'd be really foolish not to listen as closely as possible.

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"I would still like to keep that as liquid as possible and as risk-free as possible, but I'm not really happy with the available options, " he says.

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German interest rates really need to be lower, but since this is not possible under Europe's single monetary policy, common sense would argue that Germany should allow fiscal policy to be more flexible.

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As a result it is frighteningly easy to pretend to be someone else, and although it would be possible to work out that a posting signed "bill thompson" was not really from me, it could cause problems at work or in a relationship.

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"We're talking here about not government giving religious organizations money, we're talking really about leveling the playing field and making it possible for these organizations to compete fairly, " DiIulio said.

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