Sentence examples for cannot be done overnight from inspiring English sources

Closing all the loopholes cannot be done overnight.

Like Ostpolitik in Germany, which paid off in the end, this cannot be done overnight.

This cannot be done overnight: it will take time, especially in difficult economic circumstances.

Assembling the money and the people to do the sifting work cannot be done overnight, Ms. Borakove said.

However, creating the conditions to foster such a culture cannot be done overnight, especially within and across governments and agencies with entrenched bureaucratic systems that resist risk-taking and change, and that tend towards siloed operations.

He will probably say he is mindful of the dangers of offshore drilling and of climate change, but that oil will be with us for a long time yet, that UN agreements will progressively reduce global emissions and that the transition away from fossil fuels cannot be done overnight.

The short version of what I want to say is that this cannot be done in a rush the night before.

Skimming, for instance, cannot be done in rough seas and is often limited to daylight hours because of the difficulties in detecting oil at night.

That cannot be done.

It just cannot be done".

"It cannot be done individually".