Blinded by a meaningless imperfection and an impossible goal, Aylmer had thrown away her life and with it his chance for happiness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

She says she permits herself to express her insecurities and fears in her music in a way that would be impossible in real life.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

In many places, it seemed impossible that negroes and whites could live together peacefully, in freedom.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Poor people found it almost impossible to buy food and other necessities.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

In the end,Eddie must make an impossible decision between love and betrayal.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

A fight followed and a confusion of sounds impossible to describe.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

and so it was impossible to do the work;

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Actual modernization,says Nemtsov, is impossible without naming and removing the people responsible for the stagnation and authoritarian rule in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Not exactly. When we taste human blood, a sort of frenzy begins, and it's almost impossible to stop.

VOA: standard.other

For most men and women, fitting in an hour of moderately intense exercise in an already hectic day is difficult, if not impossible.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Even such simple tasks as collecting rainwater have been nearly impossible given the poverty and devastation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

He says academically and professionally, it is impossible to distinguish students from poor and elite backgrounds.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02