To make matters worse, hedge funds were bragging about uncanny returns, making the impossible seem possible.
Victories over the Goliaths of the West now seem possible and very much worth winning even if nary a centavo is recovered.
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"Signing Keith is something we had been looking at but, because of financial constraints, it did not seem possible, " said Glens chairman Aubrey Ralph.
Rinty learned to leap higher, run faster, and show more emotion on-screen than what would seem possible, and he could do it all on cue.
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It may not seem possible now, but the 1980s and 1990s were two decades in which the price of oil was in a general downtrend.
The differences in regional broadcast content and the lack of scale internationally also create significant hurdles that do not seem possible to cross at this point.
It would seem possible to square the circle only with tax rises elsewhere or more spending cuts, in a society where the pain of Mr Tremonti's earlier austerity measures is starting to be felt.
That the iPhone 5 might get one third of the iPhone market, or one third of the smart-phone marketplace, or possibly even one third of all phone sales: all seem possible with lowering levels of probability.
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While those rumors have yet to be confirmed, it does seem possible that Apple is indeed working on a way for OS X users to run Windows apps, and wants to use BAPco's tools to benchmark the Windows-on-OS X performance (though the tools are said not to work all that well in virtual environments).
The other scenarios that seem possible are either they split the awards in which case Argo wins Best Picture and Spielberg wins Best Director for Lincoln (or perhaps Ang Lee for Life of Pi) or Lincoln manages to hold on to its early presumptive position with strong support from larger voting blocks and triumphs in both categories.
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Together they make nuclear war seem quite possible, even likely, in the next half century.
Her spins are quick and tight, with intricate positions that don't seem humanly possible.
While slowing the Greens' rise, she also wants the CDU to seem a possible coalition partner after the federal election in 2013.
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Kaestner said the family is trying to make life seem as normal as possible for their children.
All the possible bidders seem likely to want something similar to that wrung from Daimler by Cerberus.
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There seem to be three possible problems here: she does not fully understand the message that her clothes are sending.
In the institutional marketplace, strange as it may seem, it is possible for a money manager to profit more from soft dollars than from the negotiated asset management fee he receives.
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Further creditor haircuts and possible sovereign default seem likely to emerge from the impending meltdown.
The timing of this row might seem to be the worst possible - just days before voters go to the polls.
When Robbins hits his stride, it starts to seem as if the only possible explanation is an ability to start and stop time.
The obvious response to these fears, it would seem, is to do everything possible to ensure that Obama is not reelected.
Latin American countries seem to be apathetic to this possible development or may be they expect some other country to come to their rescue.
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Since computers are less likely than ever to sell, it would seem smarter to embrace the largest possible number of users with a consumer device like the iPod.
' By classifying cell phones as a possible carcinogen, they also seem to be tacitly admitting a mechanism could exist.
Such a scenario is perfectly possible the Democrats seem certain to lose a few of their 53 seats but is far from assured.
Polls have indicated that although Chavez still has strong backing from his supporters, other possible successors don't seem to generate that kind of enthusiasm.
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