How To Use Impossibility In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Finding a cheap place to rent is a virtual impossibility in this area.
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We grasp the near impossibility of innocence in a country that has itself become a criminal conspiracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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You note the legal impossibility of merciful death near home.
Times, Sunday Times
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So the techne analogy might be construed to imply the impossibility of acrasia.
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works
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Other courts in analogous situations have concluded that the impossibility was factual: State v. Mitchell, 170 Mo.
Matthew Yglesias » Financial Crisis and Causation
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Could you get the guys who taught you to sob and gibber with the impossibility of their relationship with the people they taught?
Exclusive /Film Interview: Mike Newell, Director of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | /Film
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While he seemed to have an unpracticed grace, the chap was still clumsy to almost a point of impossibility.
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The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated.
Evolution créatrice. English
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The mutakallimÅ«m, theologians who used reason and argumentation to support their revealed Islamic beliefs, developed the temporal version of the argument from the impossibility of an infinite regress, known as the kalÄm argument.
Cosmological Argument
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The impossibility, however, to find any one of equal excellence as a performer (that is to say, in his more lucid and orderly moments) had forced his reinstalment, and he had now, for the most part, reconciled himself to the narrow sphere of his appointed adagios or allegros.
Zanoni
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A further difficulty is the impossibility of including all criminal acts in a questionnaire or interview.
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A second and more serious objection to this definition concerns the impossibility of completeness in another direction.
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It is a physical impossibility to be in two places at once.
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This makes the impossibility of sustaining an objective, scientific programme particularly clear in psychology.
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Accordingly, Stanley Mill was designed and built so that destruction by fire was a virtual impossibility.
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There is error and discrepance in the schemes of the orthoepists, which shows the impossibility of carrying them into effect.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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A simple-minded fellow, he does not realize the impossibility of winning her over romantically.
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That's an impossibility given the state's fiscal crisis.
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Could this be the answer to the continuing search for the home of one's dreams, and the sheer impossibility of being able to afford to buy a property in this city?
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A praise-worthy tendency, encouraging the peoples of Europe to unite, is confronted today with the impossibility of harmonization of the atrophied and hypertrophic parts of our civilization.
Odysseus Elytis - Nobel Lecture
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The court was concerned with impediment and impossibility affecting the bringing of legal proceedings.
Times, Sunday Times
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This impossibility is articulated in all sorts of familiar assumptions about the inherent, essential properties of the various media and their proper or appropriate modes of perception.
Ekphrasis and the Other
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Central to his ecclesiology is the impossibility of determining the presence of grace in another's soul, which militates against identifying members of the elect with certainty, and therefore against excommunicating any of them from the Church, as well as ruling out popular election as a means of instituting just civil dominium.
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy
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Benedict also discussed his contentious speech in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which provoked the ire of the Muslim world; denounced drug abuse; explained what he described as the impossibility of ordaining women as priests; and, with surprising candor, said that if he did not feel up to the task of being pope, he would resign.
The Seattle Times
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It had its intellectual trouble too -- the impossibility of bringing together the long-cherished idea of Lufa, and the reality of Lufa revealed by herself; the two stared at each other in mortal irreconcilement.
Home Again
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Most genuine impossibilities can be made possible by enlarging the frame of reference, by relaxing the conditions tacitly taken as fixed in the original statement of impossibility.
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Social evolution without ecological reference is ultimately a logical impossibility in a world of finite resources.
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Parking Parking in the city centre is a virtual impossibility.
Umbria - the green heart of Italy
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A favourite theme with the company was the want of soldiers or generals at the North, and the impossibility that a set of mechanics and tradesmen, who knew only how to make money and keep it, should be able in chivalrous and gentlemanly exercises to cope with the Southern cavaliers, who were accustomed to sword and pistol and the use of them from their youth up.
Daisy in the Field
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The obvious impossibility of this task only adds to its fascination.
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The disadvantages are the impossibility of playing some chords and the need to be neat-fingered when playing trills on two notes which share a string.
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We Protestants know better: we understand the impossibility of supposing such a narrow and local reference in orbs, so transcendently vast as those composing the constellation -- orbs removed from each other by such unvoyageable worlds of space, and having, in fact, no real reference to each other more than to any other heavenly bodies whatsoever.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2
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As the day wore on there was above all a sense of congealment – and also of gathering confusion, of the impossibility of ever really understanding anything at all.
Transfer deadline day's hype is over, long live the quavering hype | Barney Ronay
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My objections regarding the mathematical impossibility of such an outcome were always readily ignored.
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I have entirely forgotten what it was, but deem it no great matter, inasmuch as there is a pervading commonplace and identicalness in the composition of extensive dinners, on account of the impossibility of supplying a hundred guests with anything particularly delicate or rare.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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The sheer impossibility of summarising Oracle Night is in fact a mark of the book's strength.
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They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring.
Personnel Management: A New Approach
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However, even if someone in government could be persuaded a far reaching probe is called for, given that under the new Obama administration, RIAA lawyers with clearly vested interests now occupy top DoJ positions, a fair investigation would be an impossibility.
MediaSentry and RIAA: government probe?
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Well Miss Mollie I had a good laugh at the Sergt Maj When I told him what you wrotehe is such a modest young man, it made him blush. he is perfectly carried a way and if you send many more such messages to him he will go up the Spot. but I have not much fears about you & his Lordship [unclear: getting] married for this reason. he is so very diffident and your shiness of man; Will make it a matter of impossibility to get up a match With out calling in the Third person & of course that Will be my self, of course, and of course, you Will find out that I will do all in my Power to brake up the match as I have an Intrist in your future Welfare myself.
Augusta County: James H. Blakemore to Mary Anna Sibert, September 11, 1864
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While such definitions are generally vague enough to allow for fiction founded on most any conceit of technical possibility (i.e. “speculative elements” in general rather than specific conceits like the robot or the rocketship), incoherent attempts to disallow conceits of metaphysical impossibility have led to an artificial distinction between futurological Sci-Fi and works of a more conceptual nature.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
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Becks is a physical impossibility in boxer shorts.
Times, Sunday Times
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A successful daytime raid was an impossibility, for a warning would be passed through the casbah quicker than a patrol could run.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Finding a parking space in the summer months is still a virtual impossibility.
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She has stated the impossibility of bringing the presence of the parents into the present moment, the powerlessness of art to deliver such a presence.
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It is the impossibility of reconciling these two different worlds that women are literally throwing up.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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So did the enforced exile, the separation from his family, and the impossibility of seeing the mother he adored.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the one principal and one guidance counselor to have constant contact with all our kids would be an impossibility.
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one could grant to science and history everything they seem to teach regarding the age of the world, the origin of man, the impossibility of miracles, the impossibility of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body, the Jahvist, the Elohist, the third Isaah, and so on, without abandoning one iota of the substance of the Jewish faith.
A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb
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His better judgment was against suspending operations, but the proposition had been suggested by all sorts of complaints as to the impossibility of moving the trains and the like, so it needed little argument to convince him, and without further discussion he said, in that manner which with him meant a firmness of purpose that could not be changed by further complainings, "We will go on.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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“It’s a mere impossibility this night,” said the woman, “the troopers keep sae strict a guard; and they say there’s strange news come frae the east, that makes them rage in their cruelty mair fierce than ever — Ye maun take shelter somegate for the night before ye get to the muirs, and keep yoursell in hiding till the grey o’ the morning, and then you may find your way through the
Old Mortality
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Once he heard a lecture on the impossibility of applying steam navigation to the ocean; at another time he saw the principle of "galvanism" illustrated with a small battery, but the impracticability of its use for industrial purposes on account of the high cost of mercury was pointed out.
Military reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C.S.A.,
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Tying my shoes was a major accomplishment, long division seemed a near impossibility, and complex social interaction consisted of a game of tag.
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Nothing would be more easy than, by the ordinary principles of sound logic and common sense, to demonstrate the impossibility and expose the absurdity of the corpuscularian or mechanic system, or than to prove the intenable nature of any intermediate system.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
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Finding a cheap place to rent is a virtual impossibility in this area.
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One is tough enough to overcome, but both is a near impossibility.
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It was at this moment of insanity that the sheer impossibility of the situation came to him.
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In particular, national desires to shift from import-replacing investments to export-creating ones may be confounded by administrative impossibility.
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To recognize the necessity of a religion, the necessity of authority, and then to leave to subjects the right to deny religion, attack its worship, oppose the exercise of power by public expression communicable and communicated by thought, was an impossibility which the Catholics of the sixteenth century would not hear of.
Catherine De Medici
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The faded distorting mirrors beside Fat May; the impossibility of choosing a mount when one had but a single ride on the great carrousel; the vertigo attendant on his recognition that Ocean City was worn out, the place of fathers and grandfathers, straw-boatered men and parasoled ladies survived by their amusements.
The Worst Years of Your Life
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The recognition that Illinois and Indiana may easily decide this election and the impossibility of saying which way they will go have produced intense activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the apparent impossibility of justifying a project whose internal organization rests on our acceptance of a hypothesis about matters prior to experience -- thereby precluding all verification or falsification by experience -- Kant introduces a new type of pre-conscious symbolization in order to ensure both, the self-conscious integrity of the philosophical subject known as "apperception" and the rationality and legitimacy of its representations as knowledge.
Bringing About the Past
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Man with characteristic flair, "is a praxis that thematizes its own thesis about the impossibility of thematization ...
Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
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To take, therefore, a skiagraph of a brain through two thicknesses of skull, with our present methods, is an impossibility.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
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For, as Derrida writes, ‘What is tragic is not the impossibility but the necessity of repetition’ and, we might add, the necessity of the prompter.
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This broad spectrum of ideas made the initial articulation of a collection development policy for the Conservation Library an impossibility.
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In the field of anthropology this narcissistic consciousness, which prefers to measure itself by its own impossibility, oneiric or otherwise, but impossible nonetheless, hasn't stayed idle.
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In fact, the impossibility of answering the question is his very reason for asking it.
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Which is to say, the alethic quirk could be a technical, historical, metaphysical or logical impossibility.
Modality and Hamlet
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Faced with the impossibility of obtaining traditional end-grain boxwood blocks to engrave, Mr. Moser found a modern substitute—his striking designs were engraved on polymer resin.
Four Centuries of Love and Suffering for the Word
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When I am a father at last, I want to gather the men who fathered me over a large family-style dinner that is a physical impossibility except in my dreams.
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Such high standards are an impossibility, therefore, the pushing for that "perfection" creates fake, frustrated, anal retentive, "just for the picture" kind of mothers that become so involved in what they're supposed to be that they forget to love their children.
The Bad Mother Manifesto | Her Bad Mother
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How do you choose between the loss of credibility and power that comes from climbing down, and the virtual impossibility of pressing on?
Times, Sunday Times
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It not only looks like a physical impossibility; it is very close to actually being so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Düsseldorf school of photograph's codes and photographers such as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, while pushing them to their ultimate stage: monumentality, frontality, absence of narration and time reference - ie impossibility to identify the season of the year or the time of the day; but instead of picturing an arrogant modernist building, only remains a pyramid of ruins.
We make money not art
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Basil of Caesarea (33079), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West.
B. The Early Church
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It would be manifestly an utter impossibility to skiagraph the many fractures which are seen there daily, considering that it would take from half an hour to an hour of the time of not less than two or three assistants skilled not only in surgery, but also in electricity, to skiagraph a single fracture.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
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This rock face could scarcely be described as unscalable, because it was so rough that, although practically vertical, the projections on it were so numerous and pronounced that an active man could climb it without much difficulty, if uninterfered with; but if the summit and flanks happened to be held by even a small force of men armed with rifles, to climb it would at once become an absolute impossibility.
The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
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It's a physical impossibility now but we are not thinking of retirement and he will hopefully run at Punchestown.
Times, Sunday Times
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The temporal impossibility is impossible, and it's exactly that impossibility that invests the novae and errata of sf and alt-history with their power.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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Politically, it seems an impossibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a mere impossibility this night," said the woman, "the troopers keep sae strict a guard; and they say there's strange news come frae the east, that makes them rage in their cruelty mair fierce than ever -- Ye maun take shelter somegate for the night before ye get to the muirs, and keep yoursell in hiding till the grey o 'the morning, and then you may find your way through the Drake Moss.
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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Silence, pause, stillness, the impossibility of explanation: all suggest the powerlessness of narrative to fill the 'long blank'.
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But, as the chemist prefers distilled H2 O in testing solutions to avoid complications and unwarranted reactions, so the Black Woman holds that her femineity linked with the impossibility of popular affinity or unexpected attraction through position and influence in her case makes her a touchstone of American courtesy exceptionally pure and singularly free from extraneous modifiers.
A Voice From the South
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If we look at this argument closely, we perceive that what is at stake in her argument is precisely the impossibility of metalanguage in the revolutionary process.
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The impossibility of bringing this tale to the big screen would daunt any sane filmmaker.
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Part of what makes this book so entertaining is the laughable impossibility of its nonmetaphorical goal: The author seems to have written this book with the hope that everyone in America would read it, agree with all its points, and literally destroy their television sets with sledgehammers.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
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The deligation of the artery within the sheath of the adductor magnus is to be avoided because of the difficuly of reaching the vessel, and the impossibility of preventing the the accumulation of pus within the wound.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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The extent to which Kantian self-affection invites an explicit consideration of political affect is even clearer in Novalis's "Faith and Love," where Liebe names the condition of possibility and impossibility of a relationship between a monarch and his or her subjects.
Notes on 'Essay Title'
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At the heart of this problem lies the vexed question for the judiciary of separating policy issues from legal issues, and this is well illustrated by the impossibility of accepting the orthodox view of judicial independence at face value.
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Protagoras, which introduces the doctrines of the unity of virtue and the impossibility of acrasia (the doctrine that it is impossible to know what is right and still do wrong).
Plato's Shorter Ethical Works
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So did the enforced exile, the separation from his family, and the impossibility of seeing the mother he adored.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where temporal and nomological impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of hypothetical/counterfactual and metaphysical quirks, logical impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of pataphysical quirks.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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Locarno, "this essay explores Paul de Man's claim that reading is" a praxis that thematizes its own thesis about the impossibility of thematization.
Article Abstracts
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To Ahab, the White Whale represents the impossibility of going behind the superficial layers of nature or reality.
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So did the enforced exile, the separation from his family, and the impossibility of seeing the mother he adored.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Museum of Unworkable Devices explores the interface between hope and physical impossibility.
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Getting married to yourself sounded like a logical impossibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the one principal and one guidance counselor to have constant contact with all our kids would be an impossibility.
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The key concern in Jones's work is the aching desire to know the self and the ultimate impossibility of self-knowledge.
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They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring.
Personnel Management: A New Approach
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Camelopards, he declared that such a larceny was a moral impossibility, because he had never seen one such animal in the whole course of his life.
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
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– There are a few more phrases that I think could maybe be toned down: “pleading ritualism,” “unfathomable impossibility,” “illusory biology,” “contradictive peculiarity …”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
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After having made himself double, he makes nature in like manner twofold, and then he supposes she is vivified by an intelligence, which he borrows from himself, Placed in an impossibility of becoming acquainted with this agent, as well as with that which he has gratuitously distinguished from his own body; he has invented the word spiritual to cover up his ignorance; which is only in other words avowing it is a substance entirely unknown to him.
The System of Nature, Volume 2
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The notion of building a third runway at Heathrow has moved from being politically toxic to being a near political impossibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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We didn't have a choice because that's when we first arrived here, but as logical as that is for us, January is in fact half way through the Spanish school year and I remember there being a difficulty, if not an impossibility receiveing their text books; they were never really "inducted" as such, and Trent told me recently, he didn't even know when it was time to have his morning tea!
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The recognition that Illinois and Indiana may easily decide this election and the impossibility of saying which way they will go have produced intense activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The recognition that Illinois and Indiana may easily decide this election and the impossibility of saying which way they will go have produced intense activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of the subjective nature of value and the impossibility of interpersonal utility comparisons, the social-cost and social-benefit curves used to define the nonideal nature of externalities simply do not exist.
Information Liberation
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But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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It is the impossibility of reconciling these two different worlds that women are literally throwing up.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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Free and fair elections look a near impossibility.
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So did the enforced exile, the separation from his family, and the impossibility of seeing the mother he adored.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's that love that keeps the dancer working to bend the body toward perfection and at the same time recognizing the impossibility of achieving it.
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His insurmountable sense of inferiority and long-term impotence made Catherine's one essential task—giving birth to an heir, solidifying the Romanov line through Elizabeth—an impossibility.
The Rise Of an Empress
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It seems likely that this was no mere oversight on his part, but in fact a logical impossibility.
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He will come next by some scathe in the hobbleshow, and then it will be, ‘Dorothy, get the lint,’ and ‘Dorothy, spread the plaster;’ but now it is nothing but nonsense, and a lie, and impossibility, that can come out of
The Fair Maid of Perth
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You note the legal impossibility of merciful death near home.
Times, Sunday Times
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While he seemed to have an unpracticed grace, the chap was still clumsy to almost a point of impossibility.
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Right now, the Democratic foreign policy hawks are calling for more troops - an impossibility.
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Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time.
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The first is that the interpreter has placed the idea of objective truth into the realm of impossibility.
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This is an impossibility that manifests itself first and foremost as a stylistic occlusion.
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We may well say: I would desire to be young; but we do not say: I desire to be young; seeing that this is not possible; and this motion is called a wishing, or as the Scholastics term it a velleity, which is nothing else but a commencement of willing, not followed out, because the will, by reason of impossibility or extreme difficulty, stops her motion, and ends it in this simple affection of a wish.
Treatise on the Love of God
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The near-impossibility of arguing people out of political, social and religious beliefs is the same phenomenon as the impossibility of arguing deluded patients out of their false persecutory or jealous beliefs.www. hedweb.com/bgcharlton/delusions. html
Election Prediction: Voting will be Irrational, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Cereatly after myn entent, [102] and he ends by declaring that in spite of the impossibility of giving an exact rendering of the French in English metre, he has kept very closely to the original.
Early Theories of Translation
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*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them.
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers
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Finding a cheap place to rent is a virtual impossibility in this area.
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They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring.
Personnel Management: A New Approach
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We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence.
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impossibility should never be confused with improbability
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- Presents a number of applications of Galois theory, including symmetric functions, finite fields, cyclotomic fields, algebraic number fields, solvability of equations by radicals, and the impossibility of solution of the three geometric problems of Greek antiquity.
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They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring.
Personnel Management: A New Approach
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The afternoon was fine, and the car — a landaulette — open, so that he had a good view of the total impossibility of “going round.”
Swan Song
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Victory did not merely prove elusive: even the most hardbitten commanders were forced to admit in the end that it was an impossibility.
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The homosocial paradigm of the fraternity of officers, however, produces a new impossibility, for its same-sex society cannot reproduce, cannot generate a future.
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It's a film, basically, about the impossibility of love, a film whose message could be summed up by the dirge-like pop tune sung by brothel mistress Lysiane Jeanne Moreau, the film's sole female presence: "each man kills the thing he loves.
Querelle
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= A constant problem for the Latin poets was the impossibility of using words with cretic patterns (a long syllable, followed by a short syllable, followed by another long syllable) in hexameter or elegiac verse.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The impossibility of reform became apparent only two years after his election.
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They are happiest who can longest disbelieve in the impossibility of this amatorial fusion; for it may be that such
Hints for Lovers
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Neither could the reference have been to “giving” in the simple sense of that word; if they could pluck out their eyes there was no impossibility in merely _giving_ them to the apostle.
Spare Hours
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Although sacred images were potentially idolatrous, Luther refused to condone the purge and instead counter-accused the iconoclasts by affirming the impossibility of an image-less faith.
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My first electrolytical experiments were conducted with non-oxidizable plates of platinum and carbon, but the cost of the first and the impossibility of obtaining carbon plates that would stand long-continued action of nascent chlorine and oxygen made it desirable that some modification should be tried.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
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Finding a cheap place to rent is a virtual impossibility in this area.
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Creationists sometimes try to argue that what we consider straightforward, well-demonstrated cytological and genetic events don't and can't occur: that you can't get chromosome rearrangements, or that variations in chromosome number and organization are obstacles to evolution, making discussions of synteny, or the rearrangement of chromosomal material in evolution, an impossibility.
Life will find a way - The Panda's Thumb
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By making institutional racism an impossibility in theory, this son of discourse justifies it in practice.
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More to the point, the technical distinction between levels of impossibility is simply not that relevant in terms of how these quirks function; temporal or metaphysical, what we're dealing with is the impossible; novum, erratum or chimera are just different flavours of quirk; and, functionally speaking, these different types of transgression play the same way in most readings.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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KenS, factual impossibility is generally not a defense to an inchoate crime (though legal impossibility is).
Matthew Yglesias » Financial Crisis and Causation
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Accordingly, Stanley Mill was designed and built so that destruction by fire was a virtual impossibility.
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Can negative ninnies like my mother, who raise their families in dark, sneering realms of impossibility, be taught to embrace the possible?
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Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability, or impossibility.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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Finding a parking space in the summer months is still a virtual impossibility.
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That is, Polanyi identified this kind of irreducibility as a naturalistic impossibility, and argued that it should be recognized as such by the scientific community, so I am simply attaching his name to the principle.
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This was a neat bit of satire, making the impossibility of the situation immediately obvious.
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This is no case of mixing in the sense of considerable portions alternating; that would be described as collocation; no; the incoming entity goes through the other to the very minutest point — an impossibility, of course; the less becoming equal to the greater; still, all is traversed throughout and divided throughout.
The Six Enneads.
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Third of all, the practice of infanticide for unwed mothers was economic, as well as moral; it wasn't merely social stigma she worried about, but the real impossibility of nursing an infant and working.
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This makes the impossibility of sustaining an objective, scientific programme particularly clear in psychology.
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Standing up was a physical impossibility.
The Sun
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It is the impossibility of reconciling these two different worlds that women are literally throwing up.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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When the Eleatics proved the impossibility -- _i. e._, the inexpressibility -- of motion, or when Kant and his followers proved the unreal character of all objects of experience and of all natural knowledge, their task was made easy by the native diversity between the concretions in existence which were the object of their thought and the concretions in discourse which were its measure.
The Life of Reason
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So, you know, to sneak someone onto a cruise ship, that would be almost an impossibility.
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This decision involving all being expresses the impossibility of ever stopping, whether it be at some consolation or some truth, at the interests or results of an action, or with the certitudes of knowledge and belief.
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Nevertheless, Joe entertained no fears about the result; and the fish, as if apprized of the impossibility of capturing the rod, ran along parallel with the shore, gradually approaching the brink of the water, and seemingly with the intention to surrender himself at the feet of the piscator.
Wild Western Scenes
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100 percent airline security is a practical impossibility.
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Attack your impossibility complex and attach yourself to possibility thinkers.
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She has made them soft and distensible, so that an apparent physical impossibility could take place, though it is often accompanied by intense suffering.
Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
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a pervading commonplace and identicalness in the composition of extensive dinners, on account of the impossibility of supplying a hundred guests with anything particularly delicate or rare.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Burke notes qualities such as unfinishedness or ruination, magnitude, difficulty or impossibility, and even "sad and fuscous colours" as symptomatic of the Sublime.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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100 percent airline security is a practical impossibility.
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Unity seemed to be an impossibility in 1910: men's and women's interests were apparently quite incompatible.
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Which, as most mums will attest, is a virtual impossibility.
The Sun
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It would be almost an impossibility to keep the purely insectivorous species, were it not for the fact that they can be gradually accustomed to feed on what is known as "insectivorous" or "insectile" food, a composition of which the principal ingredients generally consist of dried ants 'cocoons, dried flies, dried powdered meat, preserved yolk of egg, [1] and crumb of bread or biscuit.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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On the other hand, expressions are materially absurd if the impossibility of there being any corresponding object is based in the particular material concepts employed, e.g., ˜a round square™ is a materially absurd expression based in the particular meanings of ˜round™ and ˜square™.
Categories
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Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne had been hoping for overwhelming approval, and the Fiat statement blasted what it called the impossibility of reaching agreement "with those seeking to block it," a reference to one of the metalworkers unions.
Manufacturing.net Headline News
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The other thing that sticks in my mind is the vague sense of the overwhelming impossibility of the task.
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It may be, in fact, the impossibility of omnicompetence that makes democracy the only viable choice for a system of governance.
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You note the legal impossibility of merciful death near home.
Times, Sunday Times
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The above considerations make a general purpose handwriting recognition system a virtual impossibility.
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The recognition that Illinois and Indiana may easily decide this election and the impossibility of saying which way they will go have produced intense activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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His controversy with the Jews, the impossibility of understanding anything but the Jewish law under the word nomos, 'prevented St Paul from using the phrase, the inner law of duty.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.
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Evolutionary biologists are sometimes challenged with arguments about functionless rudimentary stages or the impossibility of complex adaptive evolution.
Crossroads
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It seemed a physical impossibility, her massive body bounding with the grace of a ballerina.
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It may seem fanciful to some observers, who note the impossibility of projecting growth beyond the near-term, but widely used growth models often take a longer view.
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Another personnel problem is the near impossibility of firing poor performers.
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Just look at the near impossibility of getting rid of a bad president.
Times, Sunday Times
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The uranological portion of the Cosmos is more simple than the telluric; the impossibility of ascertaining the diversity of matter simplifies the study of the mechanism of the heavens.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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For the circumambient bodies being in perfect rest, are a wall of adamant, and in that state make it a perfect impossibility for any other body to get into that space.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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In 1845 Wantzel, continuing his researches into equations, gave a new proof of the impossibility of solving all algebraic equations by radicals.
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Austrians concerned with market processes should immediately note the impossibility of a perfectly equilibrated market in loanable funds.
Is Buffet a Misesian? - The Austrian Economists
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Finding a parking space in the summer months is still a virtual impossibility.
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Such innocence between anticipation and disappointment, a pale expanse of yielding flesh, an indrawn breath, the impossibility of discerning what to hope for.
Aftermath
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This room should destroy the magic of the work, yet it juxtaposes the basis and the result, and heightens the sense of impossibility.
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The recognition that Illinois and Indiana may easily decide this election and the impossibility of saying which way they will go have produced intense activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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For he cannot pretend to any certainty of the non-existence of God and of a future life, unless - since it could only be proved by mere reason, and therefore apodeictically -- he is prepared to establish the impossibility of both, which certainly no reasonable man would undertake to do.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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He knew from his own experience the near impossibility of forging a new life after prison.
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It seemed a physical impossibility, her massive body bounding with the grace of a ballerina.
