They didn't touch me, but formed a solid formation that would be impossible to break, walling me in with the rail of the bridge at my back. |
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I should have gotten an award for accomplishing such impossible tasks in such a short period of time. |
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The driving rain, high winds and the cold made it absolutely impossible to consider this as anything other than madness. |
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It's impossible to read of the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement. |
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The 30 to 40 miles per hour wind drove perpendicular across my path making it impossible to stay on the road even if I could see it. |
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Thomas Young lived in a pivotal time. The explosion of knowledge that was soon to come made it impossible to be a true polyhistor. |
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The boredom was driving him nuts, and it was impossible to sleep with the lights on. |
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The filmer had this janky camera with one of those clip-on fish eyes and was impossible to get hold of. |
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It was impossible to judge the Germans on their walloping of hapless Saudi Arabia. |
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It has been impossible to go out in my steamboat because it is long and narrow and could easily be rolled over by the wash from speedboats. |
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The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe. |
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Discover that buses don't take bills, that it's impossible to get change, and that four dollars in quarters weighs about half a tonne. |
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Until one has gone, it is impossible to be certain that one is really going; and until one really goes, there is no cause to take one's leave. |
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It is impossible to capture the magic of Galway and most folk are well past analysing it all. |
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It was impossible, Alex Ferguson said during the week, for Manchester United to win the quadruple. |
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It is virtually impossible to walk two abreast along the pavement and for wheelchairs and pushchairs it is a complete nightmare. |
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But yesterday the Government's response was said to be so full of difficult wording and jargon that it was impossible to know what it said. |
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Sir, it is impossible to plug an Ethernet card into the phone jack in your wall. |
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Pitre is right, combat is about screw-ups, bad officers, apathetic contractors, regret, unfairness, and impossible missions. |
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Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us. |
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One has to admit that a totalitarian empire is impossible without the Iron Curtain or a system of complete information isolation. |
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But because it is almost impossible to determine the history of a biological process, we may never know the role of the mitochondrion in the evolution of warm-bloodedness. |
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As a result of the small size of the spores, anthrax is virtually impossible to see, smell, or taste. |
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Then you had these two acrobats, a male and a female, both jacked, bending and lifting and putting their bodies into positions that appear to be physically impossible. |
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You refuse to help and then criticize me for not doing it right? You're impossible! |
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For all his flinty wit and occasional impulse to antagonize, Ed Koch was, in the end, almost impossible to dislike. |
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It is almost impossible for anybody to find out how much the companies hold in orphan assets, never mind a fair price for waiving your rights to the money. |
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It is impossible to know when allergic reactions occur, and most that do are quite serious. |
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The funicular cars waited at an impossible angle on the sloping track. |
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With the masked, shape-changing American alchemist, it is impossible to know too much for sure. |
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It would be impossible to cure all that ailed the GOP in the course of a single calendar year. |
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For the past year it has been impossible to escape the unshakeable beats and ageless looks of Pharrell Williams. |
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Zero Dark Thirty will be remembered as her personal journey and struggle to actualize what for so long seemed impossible. |
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Delisting the Yellowstone grizzly will render this achievable goal of connectivity impossible. |
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It simultaneously reveals the absurdity of dictatorship and gives comfort to those languishing under an impossible reality. |
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The Saudis fear, probably rightly, that real power sharing is impossible in an absolutist state. |
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The blizzard made it impossible to see anything abaft of the bridge. |
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They're either impossible to fold, or those criss-crossed vinyl straps dig into your flesh and you're left looking like you fell asleep on a waffle iron. |
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Jeez, Ashlyn, is it impossible to believe he accepts you now? |
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And it is a situation impossible to brush under the carpet because the Confederacy transformed the Union. |
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She's mainly funded by the Scottish Executive and the regulations make it almost impossible for her to take in anyone who comes to the project of their own accord. |
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In some parts of the world it's virtually impossible to calculate the number of executions. |
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Without a detailed breakdown on how much was spent by each minister and official it is impossible to establish is there was an abuse of the system. |
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It is impossible to calculate the full effect that watching this on television, listening on the radio must have had on Sam. |
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Most of the 40 homes destroyed by the blast no longer exist, says brunet, so finding remains is next to impossible. |
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It also instigated the quartering of refugees near their homeland, making it increasingly impossible for those needing protection to lodge an asylum application in Germany. |
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Dave Chapelle pulled off the impossible and wrangled the Fugees back together for his 2004 block party documentary. |
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Aside from a blanket ban, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are nearly impossible to control. |
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But they also bequeathed to us a founding racism that we have found it almost impossible to jettison. |
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With an equal drive and devotion to achieving what some would think impossible, unrealistic targets were set very early and reached well before time. |
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She had taken an overdose of barbiturates, whether deliberately or accidentally it was impossible to tell. |
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The collective trauma created by these barbarous acts is impossible to imagine, both in the U.S. and in the Middle East. |
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The wages are low and the working conditions difficult, all in the service of chasing what for most will be an impossible dream. |
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At that time, though, my job as a rep for an Australian company made it impossible to leave Australia. |
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It was the name of the ship that Jason and the argonauts sailed in to liberate the Golden Fleece against impossible odds. |
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The Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games. |
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However, for many decades it remained difficult if not impossible for golfers to earn a living from prize money alone. |
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Three weeks later the impossible had happened and Mansell was a Williams driver. |
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Constantinople was sacked during the Fourth Crusade, rendering the reunification of Christendom impossible. |
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Due to the destruction of documents, it is impossible to state how many forced workers died in the other islands. |
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This impasse has made it impossible to launch new WTO negotiations beyond the Doha Development Round. |
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In their view, the poverty, squalor, and ignorance in which many people lived made it impossible for freedom and individuality to flourish. |
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Exports of German films plummeted, as their heavily antisemitic content made them impossible to show in other countries. |
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Interception was near impossible with fighter planes no faster than bombers. |
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A major storm battered the Normandy coast from 19 to 22 June, which would have made the beach landings impossible. |
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It had proved impossible for most homeowners facing foreclosure to refinance or modify their mortgages and foreclosure rates remained high. |
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It is, however, impossible to estimate the number of people who are obtaining polydrugs illegally or abusing them. |
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They found it impossible to deal with such antagonistic groups. |
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It's impossible to exaggerate the importance of this discovery. |
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It's virtually impossible to book a flight just before the holiday. |
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It's physically impossible for a child to lift that much at once. |
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That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent. |
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It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames. |
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So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers. |
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In basophobia the patient by a sort of auto-suggestion persuades himself that it is impossible to stand upon his legs. |
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It's become impossible to keep abreast of all the best-ofs, as labels keep foisting greatest-hits albums on overwhelmed consumers. |
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Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible! |
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I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts. |
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One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible. |
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Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry. |
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The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret. |
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He taunted the Knicks instead with hanging jumpers, impossible fadeaways and layups in traffic. |
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In filmsetting it is almost impossible to define where 'widows' will occur when copy marking or setting at the keyboard. |
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Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse. |
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Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real. |
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How did whales survive in a fresh-water ocean for a year? Goddidit. How did any totally impossible thing happen? |
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But for my part, I find it impossible to imagine a grief with no awareness of a grievesome event, exhausted entirely by bodily sensations. |
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In the Reformation the 1560 First Book of Discipline set out a plan for a school in every parish, but this proved financially impossible. |
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Klein, who has worked extensively on ancient stone tools, describes the stone tool kit of archaic hominids as impossible to categorize. |
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In Germany, the political situation made the creation of a national code of laws impossible. |
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. |
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There were more victories, including the Battle of Verneuil, but it was impossible to maintain campaigning at this level. |
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A further English translation by William Tyndale was banned but it was impossible to prevent copies from being smuggled and widely read. |
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Nettles lives in the crosshairs, with the secret police, his sympathizers, and his now and would-be lovers making impossible demands on him. |
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In the short run yo-yo dieting will work, but eventually it makes it nearly impossible to lose weight. |
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These creatures have their bodies covered with itchsome warts which made it impossible for an Agbufu to stop scratching its body. |
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The wind made a return impossible and Plymouth was unsuitable as it had a garrison. |
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The earlier atrocities had made confidence or goodwill between parties impossible. |
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Chamberlain found it impossible to continue to lead a National Government or to form a new coalition government with himself as leader. |
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When this system of consultation and consent broke down, it often became impossible for government to function effectively. |
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Its leaders believed that peace was impossible because of capitalism, secret diplomacy, and the trade in armaments. |
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Unfortunately these decisions are not published anonymously and therefore its impossible to show on individual cases that this happened. |
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Newton had committed himself to the doctrine that refraction without colour was impossible. |
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He also contended that discussing the soul is impossible because it is made of a divine substance, and humanity cannot perceive the divine. |
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The conjecture was seen by contemporary mathematicians as important, but extraordinarily difficult or perhaps impossible to prove. |
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Also, once you use light-water on a fuel fire, it's nearly impossible to get it to re-light for subsequent firefighters. |
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It was found impossible to drain the bog at Chat Moss, and one of the men on the site, Robert Stannard suggested timber in a herring bone layout. |
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It was impossible to find a moment of privacy in a flat where we were living on top of one another all the time. |
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Soon afterwards, it became impossible for people to read Old English, and the texts became useless. |
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So serious was the deterioration of the meetinghouse that by the middle 1990s it was impossible to use the building at all. |
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It was consumed daily by all social classes in the northern and eastern parts of Europe where grape cultivation was difficult or impossible. |
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Ochre is not an organic material, so carbon dating of these pictures is often impossible. |
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Occupation will never bring liberation, and it is impossible to bring democracy by war. |
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The Crown persecuted the Covenanters but popular support made it impossible to convict them in a jury trial. |
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However, it is now impossible to tell how much personal communication they had, and tales of their friendship cannot be substantiated. |
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I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. |
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Newspeak is a simplified and obfuscatory language designed to make independent thought impossible. |
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Additionally, he likely had some hand in the writing of The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, though it is impossible to tell how much. |
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Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. |
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A player concedes the game before the 21st end if the score difference is such that it is impossible to draw equal or win within the 21 ends. |
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Winning times had improved to such a degree that many felt further improvement by adding additional Arabian bloodlines was impossible. |
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The ad valorem property tax policy combined with rising prices made it difficult or impossible for low income residents to keep pace. |
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Numerical methods for differential equations can be used to approximately solve Maxwell's equations when an exact solution is impossible. |
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This temperature is on the order of billionths of a kelvin for black holes of stellar mass, making it essentially impossible to observe. |
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Rotating black holes are surrounded by a region of spacetime in which it is impossible to stand still, called the ergosphere. |
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Evidence can now be uncovered that was scientifically impossible at the time of the original examination. |
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The research for CAM has to meet certain standards from research ethics committees, which most CAM researchers find almost impossible to meet. |
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The titular hero realised how impossible it had become for him to integrate into the new conformist society. |
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The public sensation caused by Alec's novel so offended the school that it became impossible for Evelyn to go there. |
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Nevertheless, when he became convinced that a negotiated peace was impossible, he publicly urged the neutral United States to join the fight. |
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The themes are usually associated with the land, animals, folklore, impossible love and separation. |
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Movies like this are not merely difficult to make at all, but almost impossible to make well. |
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Some argue that it is impossible to do the calculation that utilitarianism requires because consequences are inherently unknowable. |
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After the outbreak of World War I, it became almost impossible to obtain hurleys from Ireland. |
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This was impossible elsewhere as the other parts of the line were located in civilian areas. |
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It is nearly impossible to differentiate between cut citrine and yellow topaz visually, but they differ in hardness. |
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Although it is impossible to know how imprisonment affected him, it quickly became clear that it was a determined man that returned to Scotland. |
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Parliament suffered chronic difficulties in obtaining sufficient manpower, and found it impossible to fill the quotas they had set. |
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However, as it is more than sixty years since I lost that habit, I feel, unfortunately, that it is impossible for me to resume it. |
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Critics replied to Chalmers that his approach was impossible in large cities. |
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Plumer was moved to Italy with five divisions and heavy artillery, which made renewal of the Ypres offensive impossible. |
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He was talking nineteen to the dozen, it was almost impossible to follow what he was saying. |
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Finally, there are the archaeological sources, which abound, but are almost impossible to interpret as to their possible legal meanings. |
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Thus it was very hard to provision those of the highest rank and obviously impossible to find a substitute to do their work. |
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Prosecution for a crime already judged is impossible even if incriminating evidence has been found. |
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The growing number of young professional Scottish fiddlers makes a complete list impossible. |
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However, it has been impossible to prove that these remains date from the time when the stones were originally set in place. |
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Animals kept indoors are generally farmed intensively, as large space requirements could make indoor farming unprofitable if not impossible. |
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For example, the free morpheme constraint does not account for why switching is impossible between certain free morphemes. |
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It seems impossible to prove, however, that any poem must go back to the sixth century linguistically and cannot be a century or more later. |
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Wheat, however, the grain used to bake bread back in England was almost impossible to grow, and imports of wheat were far from cost productive. |
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Mayr emphasised reproductive isolation, but this, like other species concepts, is hard or even impossible to test. |
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One-time pads have been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly. |
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When eating, they ingest the whole plant, including the roots, although when this is impossible they feed on just the leaves. |
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They allow the traveller to have scenic views impossible to see from the main roads. |
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Because of this, it is nearly impossible to live on Svalbard without working for an established institution. |
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It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Holland in the seventeenth century, as the one country where there was freedom of speculation. |
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Such a distortion is impossible to correct for without knowing the details of the lens used to capture the image. |
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Without the questionnaire designed by the Marquis of Pombal, this would have been impossible. |
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The Veneti manoeuvred so skilfully under sail that boarding was impossible. |
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The very light wind rendered manoeuvring virtually impossible for all but the most expert seamen. |
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He observed, When you are told a thing is impossible, that there are insuperable objections, then is the time to fight like the devil. |
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The spaces that are most open are the low grounds to northeast and southwest, where it is practically impossible to get below the Roman strata. |
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By 8 November, Falkenhayn concluded that the attempt to advance along the coast had failed and that taking Ypres was impossible. |
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In this manner it is almost impossible for target ships to pass safely between two individually moored mines. |
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The number of sorties flown declined as losses were now becoming impossible to replace. |
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This was almost impossible prior to the 16th century due to the nature of the ships used. |
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Certain Arab nations, such as Syria, also protested against the entry of MDA into the Red Cross movement, making consensus impossible for a time. |
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Wilkins returned a set of calculations demonstrating the system was basically impossible. |
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It is impossible for you to create this application using only the techniques you learned in the first two chapters, so read on young padawan! |
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Despite being closely related to the domestic cat, wildcats have a reputation for being effectively impossible to raise as pets. |
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Small populations might exist in North Korea, but the political situation makes investigation impossible. |
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However, this species has such a long history with humans that it is impossible to tell exactly where the species' original range was. |
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The potential age of yews is impossible to determine accurately and is subject to much dispute. |
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There is rarely any wood as old as the entire tree, while the boughs themselves often become hollow with age, making ring counts impossible. |
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I lay, as it were, in the Paphian bower of bliss, in a state of exquisite sensations quite impossible to describe. |
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By the time they leave the continent, their gut dissolves, making feeding impossible, so they have to rely on stored energy alone. |
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As snakes do not appear in the art, it is impossible to say what cultural impact they had, if any. |
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He also argued that crossing the Atlantic with the means available at the time would have been difficult, if not impossible. |
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These gains were impossible to achieve in the navy or working on merchant ships. |
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The plant clogs the motors of small boats, making it impossible for fishers to launch their vessels. |
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In a dream, you can cheat architecture into impossible shapes. That lets you create closed loops, like the Penrose Steps. The infinite staircase. |
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Competing with new civilian jet aircraft like the de Havilland Comet and Boeing 707 proved impossible. |
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Faced with this ultimatum, Mordaunt decided that a further immediate assault was impossible, and agreed that the force should withdraw. |
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In this case the criterion of mutual intelligibility makes it impossible to decide whether A and C are dialects of the same language or not. |
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However, marathon routes still vary greatly in elevation, course, and surface, making exact comparisons impossible. |
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If you are not a phobe, it is almost impossible not to stroke a cat that comes within range. |
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The names are clearly Gothic, but it is impossible to say whether they are as old as the letters themselves. |
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It was more difficult or even impossible to go as an individual tourist to East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. |
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It is impossible to base this distinction on primary sources, as Eastern Francia remains in use long after Kingdom of Germany comes into use. |
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He capitulated only when further resistance had become impossible and useless. |
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It is impossible to form an estimate of the character of any race of savages from their deferential behavior to the white man while he is strong. |
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However, it was undertaken on so large a scale as to make it impossible for them to complete it. |
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To a certain extent, mercantilist doctrine itself made a general theory of economics impossible. |
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With such a small study it is impossible to extrapolate accurately. |
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Bloch argues that this form of ritual communication makes rebellion impossible and revolution the only feasible alternative. |
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Seeing that the situation for evangelization and catechizing was impossible, Buil left for Spain, defeated, within six months on 3 Dec. |
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As the Inca did not have written records, it is impossible to exhaustively list the constituent wamani. |
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The friars found that learning all the indigenous languages was impossible in practice, so they concentrated on Nahuatl. |
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine with any exactitude the number of people killed during the siege. |
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When the Eighty Years' War broke out in 1568, commercial trading between Antwerp and the Spanish port of Bilbao collapsed and became impossible. |
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East of the Yamal, the route north of the Taimyr Peninsula proved impossible or impractical. |
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Because of this, it is almost impossible to live on Spitsbergen without working for an established institution. |
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It was the only bridge in the city, and made crossing the Derwent River by road at Hobart impossible. |
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Construction of the dams also became impossible after disintegration of Soviet Union due to economic reasons. |
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Prior to the wheellock, the need for a lit match made stealth and concealment nearly impossible, particularly at night. |
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This is impossible in a spinet, due to the alternating orientation of the jacks. |
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The inferential is usually impossible to be distinguishably translated into English. |
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President Friedrich Ebert knew that Germany was in an impossible situation. |
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Culbert's detailed sampling data, or any other census data, it is impossible to state the number of speakers with certainty. |
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In these languages, words beginning in a vowel, like the English word at, are impossible. |
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The fall made it impossible for man to keep this covenant, so God made another covenant, this one called the covenant of grace. |
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Given Eastland's firm opposition, it seemed impossible that the bill would reach the Senate floor. |
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Hund sees this as problematic because it makes quantifying the law almost impossible, since behaviour is obviously inconsistent. |
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With such a large number of parties, it is nearly impossible for one party or faction to govern alone, let alone win a majority. |
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Border controls thereafter strengthened such that, by 1928, even illegal departure was effectively impossible. |
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Jurists developed various restrictions which in many cases made them virtually impossible to apply. |
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That is impossible, the water has to move away from the wheel, and represents an unavoidable cause of inefficiency. |
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In ancient times steel and iron were impossible to melt using charcoal or coal fires, which could not produce temperatures high enough. |
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Nevertheless, Evans's ideas of steam carriages were not an impossible dream. |
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It is difficult or impossible to obtain such a tight fit with other fasteners. |
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The war in the American colonies and its aftermath made it impossible to continue for more than a decade. |
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But since lace evolved from other techniques, it is impossible to say that it originated in any one place. |
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Furthermore, some load types were difficult or impossible to make work with higher voltages. |
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When publishing at the same rate became financially impossible, they turned to subscriptions and serial publications. |
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They also point out that it's mathematically impossible for the third millennium to have begun when 1999 ended regardless of who was in favor. |
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In Sri Lanka, over strict laws made it almost impossible for any craft beer to be brewed. |
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It is impossible to satisfactorily date the beginning of the novel in English. |
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Escapes among Caucasian prisoners were almost impossible because of the difficulty of men of Caucasian descent hiding in Asiatic societies. |
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It is impossible to ascertain whether the creature originated in the Celtic or Germanic elements in British culture. |
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Their existence is impossible to falsify, and ghost hunting has been classified as pseudoscience. |
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It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humour. |
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He's a real scrapper, even against impossible odds, he always keeps fighting. |
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It was impossible to avoid pagan terminology altogether, however, and the Seventy relaxed their vigilance when dealing with poetry. |
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The rules have made a large stunt like Abscam impossible to pursue today. |
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Now that we have done the impossible we can finish it, all that remain are rather easy and surmountable obstacles. |
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The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin on his body. |
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Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings. |
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Toepokes are useful in an emergency, particularly when it is impossible to get close to the ball. |
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And it was impossible to know where their allegiances truly lay. |
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For it seemed flatly impossible that different people should look exactly and undistinguishably alike. |
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Amin Gemayel, it is felt here, is an unknown quantity and it is impossible to predict how he will act. |
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It is impossible to suppose that a State of Russia's power and antecedents would tolerate a privileged community within the body of the Empire. |
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We are so good that it is almost impossible to unrecognize a face in order to notice the asymmetries that help us first recognize it. |
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It may be impossible to replace Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the unsilenceable Nigerian dissident who was the patriarch of Afrobeat. |
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Under winner-take-all elections, many minority candidates find it nearly impossible to win. |
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Kim Delaney plays Kathleen Maguire, an attitudinal if somewhat green defense attorney with an impossible workload. |
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For years, anthropologists and archaeologists blamed the abandonments on reduced rainfall that made farming impossible in the region. |
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If it is so weak that wax moths have taken the hive over, it is almost impossible to save. |
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However many people find it impossible to get rid of some of these species without weedkillers. |
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This is a smooth, fruity drop which is so quaffable, it's impossible to stop at just one glass. |
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While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion. |
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So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a laborious and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes. |
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Just as in oral cultures, the challenge of processing that amount of information would be nearly impossible without adding some aggregative weight. |
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But that, you see, my dear Kermit, would be altogether impossible. |
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Some later tunes, like those used for Morris dance, may have their origins in this period, but it is impossible to be certain of these relationships. |
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Sophie Grace Chappell argues that, without external reasons for action, it becomes impossible to maintain that the same set of moral reasons applies to all agents equally. |
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Chappals and shoes will fill up the garbage pit too quickly. I think it is impossible to burn old shoes and chappals. They melt and become very bad. |
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Biographer Robert DeMaria believed that Tourette syndrome likely made public occupations like schoolmaster or tutor almost impossible for Johnson. |
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In the background were impossible castles and castlettes, precariously perched on isolated pinnacles of rock, which broke out here and there with unlikely trees. |
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This in turn can enable reasonably sized minorities to achieve some representation, as it becomes impossible for a simple plurality to sweep every seat. |
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According to an internal document released in 2007, the British Army had failed to defeat the IRA but made it impossible for them to win by violence. |
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His manpower had dramatically decreased, and he had lost so many effective officers and generals that an offensive against Dresden seemed impossible. |
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Since it is impossible for a scientist to record everything that took place in an experiment, facts selected for their apparent relevance are reported. |
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The second condition in which the treatment of Braxton Hicks is impossible is when version cannot be performed owing to the escape of the liquor amnii. |
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He believes that identities in the play are not so much lost as they are blended together to create a type of haze through which distinction becomes nearly impossible. |
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Petrarchan sonnets were often used by men to exaggerate the beauty of women who were impossible for them to attain, as in Romeo's situation with Rosaline. |
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The astral planes include some such characters, notably in the CJK extensions, without which it is impossible to write some people's names correctly. |
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However, laypeople are not expected to live in extreme asceticism since this is close to impossible while undertaking the normal responsibilities of worldly life. |
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Russell's ministry introduced a new programme of public works that by the end of December 1846 employed some half million Irish and proved impossible to administer. |
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Extreme winters in some areas made the supply of fresh vegetables impossible, therefore a lot of dried fruits and vegetables are incorporated in the cuisine. |
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Universality has its provenance in the absolute singularity of this death-destroying anastasic moment at the impossible interface between time and eternity. |
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While a majority of the commissions were delivered, it proved impossible for all of them to be delivered before Adams's term as president expired. |
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His poor results led to the loss of his scholarship, which made it impossible for him to return to Oxford for that final term, so he left without his degree. |
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For a public man of Maugham's generation, being openly gay was impossible. |
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It is impossible to give an exact date of the extinction of Cumbric. |
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The king set out by river on 13 June, but the large number of people thronging the banks at Greenwich made it impossible for him to land, forcing him to return to the Tower. |
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Even after a decision has been made, it is virtually impossible to know whether a jury has been correct or incorrect in freeing or accusing a defendant of a crime. |
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How much of this was due to his intake of alcohol is impossible to ascertain, according to Bragg, because of Burton's reluctance to be treated for alcohol addiction. |
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But, apart from such beings as fairies, who are created with magical powers, it is virtually impossible for any individual to have all-encompassing ability in magicology. |
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Because there was only one unique token issued at any one time for each stretch of single track, it was impossible for more than one train to be on it at a time. |
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Scotus explains the differences between the two and offers proofs for the conclusion that an infinity of essentially order causes in a series is impossible. |
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The river Seine froze that winter, which made it impossible for ships to bring food and coal to Paris, leading to widespread starvation and deaths from the cold in that city. |
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The usual privacy of the consultations was made impossible because they took place during the party conference, and the potential successors made their bids very publicly. |
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This was impossible from inception, but Radcliffe seems to have had no doubt in himself and raised no official complaint or proposal to change the circumstances. |
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The date of the election, which had already been set, made it impossible for Caesar to stand unless he crossed the pomerium and gave up the right to his triumph. |
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A consequence of describing electrons as waveforms is that it is mathematically impossible to simultaneously derive the position and momentum of an electron. |
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Sometime I have thought that impossible it had been, so to have removed my affection from the realm of Scotland, that any realm or nation could have been equal dear to me. |
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In the 17th century, high mortality rates for newcomers and a very high ratio of men to women made family life either impossible or unstable for most colonists. |
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Overpopulation is therefore in the interest of the bourgeoisie, and it gives the workers good advice which it knows to be impossible to carry out. |
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It is next to impossible to get him to admit it, but he writes very well. |
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There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth. |
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Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it. |
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It became apparent in July 2012 that the firm's financial difficulties had made this plan impossible to implement, and initially all but the Esprit project were cancelled. |
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It is impossible to pass through without purchasing some curiosity. |
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The SNP went on to win an unprecedented majority in the Scottish Parliament, a result that had been considered impossible under the proportional voting system. |
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In the Ming and Qing dynasties, however, the water level in the Tonghui River dropped and it was impossible for ships to travel from Tongzhou to Beijing. |
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But those of us who were young at heart were ready to go to extremes with not so impossible schemes but it soon appeared our dreams would fall apart at the seams. |
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It is impossible to give an idea of the scene that followed, of the horror of everyone present or of the piercing shrieks of his unfortunate wife, who was in the car. |
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