If last week's developments demonstrated television's possibilities, they also offered dramatic evidence of the Internet's ability to feed the public's hunger not only for information, but for detail and authenticity, to a degree otherwise impossible.
Private collectors are often able to collect in depth on a subject to a degree usually impossible for a public institution; being known to booksellers and other collectors, they are likely to be given early information about books of interest to them; they can also give close attention to the condition of the books they buy.
In brief, Impossible estimates a degree of impossibility for any pair of species or groups of species by comparing and ranking all the bipartitions, for each marker as well as for all the markers, if they are above a user-defined threshold.
The humorist S. J. Perelman found the brothers to be "megalomaniacs to a degree which is impossible to describe".
Recent genetic analysis has highlighted, to a degree that is impossible to ignore, the fact that the barriers between species have never been impermeable.
In addition, the new microvine model enabled the execution of whole plant experiments in climate chambers controlling experimental conditions to a degree, which was impossible in previous studies.
Since the planet has already warmed by one degree and, for all practical purposes, is committed to another half a degree, it would seem impossible to meet the latter goal and nearly impossible to meet the former.
Patient information about the strength of their nerves and muscles could be tracked to a degree that was previously impossible.
Last week's analytics scrimmage was the first official W.N.B.A. event tracked by Stats L.L.C.'s SportVU, a system of six ceiling-mounted cameras that records player movement on the court to a degree that would be impossible to do manually.
According to my hypothesis, a toxic alkaloid in the seeds weakened McCandless to such a degree that it became impossible for him to hike out to the highway or hunt effectively, leading to starvation.
