It would merely highlight the impossible task of squaring the circle of cheap U.S. gasoline at American pumps and strong international pressures against Iran.
Nonetheless, poets like Mr Milosz persist in the impossible task, conscious that they can never do more than suggest a ghostly outline of the original.
With the impossible task of having to score three goals on the tough Mazembe pitch, the Senegalese had effectively ruled themselves out of the contest.
The dragging of feet, the deep underlying problems facing the Euro, the impossible task of managing the disparate economies and political systems within the euro-zone - these are all problems with deep, and perhaps intractable, roots.
With Mitchell Johnson at the crease alongside Brad Haddin, Australia face the impossible task of saving the Test - and series - on day four, which is certain to herald huge celebrations from England players and fans alike.
However, he still managed the almost impossible task of raising expenses and yet curbing the fiscal deficit for next year.
That committee faces the nearly impossible task of attributing blame for Thailand's worst political violence in a generation.
Now Nike is attempting the nearly impossible task of getting those patents invalidated.
Answering this is the thankless, and maybe impossible, task facing the delegates in Argentina.
Now Nike is attempting the near-impossible task of getting Oakley's patents invalidated.
Also on hand, and running in the Viggo Mortensen groove, is Richard Armitage, who, as Thorin Oakenshield, somehow performs the near-impossible task of depicting a hot hairy dwarf.
In an environment where the value of the currency is unstable the task is nearly impossible.
But, with interest rates already at zero and the Bank of Japan having already engaged in the biggest quantitative easing effort on the planet, it could be that even with all the will in the world, the task may simply prove impossible.
That distrust is also shared by many in Europe and the prime minister faced the daunting - some say impossible - task of trying to bridge the gap between the views of 'old Europe', led by France and Germany, and the unflinching position of the American administration.
Zimbabwe's defeat was their third in succession in the triangular tournament also involving the West Indies, and now leaves them with an almost impossible task of reaching the final.
This sorry state of affairs is creating two types of guys: those who, filled with insecurity, battle to whip their aging muscles into something resembling definition, and those who, in the face of an impossible task, just give up.
But once in a while, like now, we stop to focus on what we ask of the people who serve in our stead when the task seems all but impossible.
The impression that Mr Prescott may have been given an impossible task is reinforced by the paucity of funding devoted to the new Strategic Rail Authority.
However, Google considers the trial a threat to freedom on the Internet because it could force providers with an impossible task - pre-screening the thousands of hours of footage uploaded every day onto websites like the Google-owned YouTube.
If we also consider flaws intentionally inserted by a determined and clever insider, the task becomes virtually impossible.
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Opening a new bank account for her husband elsewhere would require executing a new document, a near impossible task when the grantor is incompetent.
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The negotiators meeting in The Hague face a near-impossible task in reconciling these different views.
There are no witnesses, and it is a nearly impossible task to identify the perpetrators, he said.
McLeish added that predicting which teams would finish the season in the relegation places was a near impossible task.
Barcelona now faces an "almost impossible" task to make the final and defender Pique admits his team was completely outplayed.
"Doubling the complexity of the circuit often times turns it from being a difficult task to a practically impossible one, whereas for us to double the complexity it's really straightforward, " he told BBC News.
I've received twenty e-mails since starting this response, and without the rules that have evolved over the last five years my task would be impossible.
Ignoring the fact that no other agency that has promised such angels of public service has ever delivered them, we discussed in the last few weeks how this task is impossible.
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For a company approaching a bank for the first time, just finding the right department and the right people is a daunting, often impossible, task.
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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.
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