impossibility

How To Use impossibility In A Sentence

• In truth, taking on Sandamhor as a family enterprise would be an impossibility without my mother's salary as a headteacher on a neighbouring island. Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
• It is an absolute impossibility for one kind of electricity to be generated without an equal quantity of the opposite kind being produced, although it is not strictly correct to use the term generated or produced in relation to electricity, as electricity cannot really be produced by any process whatever. Aether and Gravitation
• Thank God, a "Southern literature," in the sense intended by the champions of slavery, is a simple impossibility, rendered such by that exility of mind which they demand in its producers as a prerequisite to admission into the guild of Southern authorship. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
• But the difficulty of going at what I call a rapid pace, is prodigious; it is almost an impossibility. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
• Usually the translations give a different turn to the first words of v. 14 than the original allows for: they make the perfect a precative -- an impossibility -- "but think on me" (A. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
• Finding a cheap place to rent is a virtual impossibility in this area.
• We grasp the near impossibility of innocence in a country that has itself become a criminal conspiracy. Times, Sunday Times
• You note the legal impossibility of merciful death near home. Times, Sunday Times
• So the techne analogy might be construed to imply the impossibility of acrasia. Plato's Shorter Ethical Works
• Other courts in analogous situations have concluded that the impossibility was factual: State v. Mitchell, 170 Mo. Matthew Yglesias » Financial Crisis and Causation