Republican leaders insist that spending can be cut, even though several of their own committee chairmen say this is impossible.
Bulgarian radio said that the sole doctor among the accused, Zdravko Georgiev, cried out: "This is horrible, this is impossible!"
Some may think this is impossible but many South Africans, such as Ms Siswana, are already equally at home in both.
The Palestinians say that this is impossible and that the freeze is imperative if Mr Abbas and his government are to honour their promise to end the intifada.
De Beers has long maintained that this is impossible: that diamonds are harder to police even than drugs, because once cut and polished, their origin is impossible to determine.
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And yet we know that this is impossible.
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"This is impossible to believe, " she said.
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Conventional wisdom says this is impossible.
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He has promised that the health care plan he supports will increase access to health services and improve their quality, but simultaneously will not increase the size of the federal deficit or be funded with tax hikes - and this is impossible.
However, with all these statements, the recurring comment is that this program is impossible to do within the existing procurement system.
"The big problem is that sometimes this ball is impossible to control, " said England's Italian manager.
This is nearly impossible as cyberspace is too large, too sophisticated and too interconnected to be dealt with alone without cooperation.
This is almost impossible to breach unless you yourself have traded like instruments, or if the investment manager is your buddy.
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This is an impossible goal to achieve and I wish I had known that when I was 13.
With trade and budget deficits at historically high levels, this is simply impossible.
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In re-reading the paragraph above, I realize that this is an impossible scenario.
So when we set out on this, I thought this is mission impossible.
The problem is that this is virtually impossible to calculate accurately and objectively, which leaves too much room for protectionist tinkering with the numbers.
It has caught on with sports broadcasters who like to describe athletes as giving more than 100% despite the fact that this is completely impossible.
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This is an impossible world defined by Alice's Queen of Hearts, and it may be one reason the South today is filled with red states.
But the exact pace of this destruction is impossible to predict.
Without a national strategy, local authorities say this too is impossible.
Right now, getting guarantees from France and Germany on all this is proving impossible, but that could change in the course of the night, I am told.
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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This is nearly impossible given the variability of demand (at the mercy of fuel prices and the economy) and the limited control train operators have over costs, which continue to rise steadily.
But sometimes this is simply impossible because the player doesn't want to take a pay cut, preferring instead to collect his paycheck and count down the days until he becomes a free agent.
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This is an impossible task, no matter how smart or well-motivated our rules claim to be, because every individual has his or her own unique incentives, information, and preferences in making price-value trade-offs for care.
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