Sentence examples for distant impossible from inspiring English sources

The distant, impossible love he addresses could be a nation as well as a person.

They were imagining a life that was distant and impossible, and trying to bring it close enough to touch.

Berlin is planning to rewrite the European neighbourhood policy for countries whose membership hopes are distant or impossible.

However, by then, as Professor Duffy put it, England's Catholic inheritance became for the English people "a distant world, impossible for them to look back on as their own".

A return to the Football League seemed a distant, and impossible, dream when Newport AFC embarked on their first season in the Hellenic League.

In the worst-case scenario, chaos and violence could erupt, making the possibility of an agreement even more distant, if not impossible.

Bounville has a point: Despite some encouraging victories, the big gay dream of "full equality now" still feels distant – if not impossible.

The immature sugar cane grows up past their shoulders, rows and rows of it, the narrow leaves forming spiny corridors whose ends are so distant they are impossible to see.

He has spoken bravely of restoring the style of two decades ago, but as he surveys a mediocre squad and a boardroom riven by innuendo, even he must realise that is a distant, if not impossible task.

Owing to their complex ploidy and parthenocarpic fruit development, conventional breeding is laborious and time consuming in edible cultivars of banana and hence introduction of resistance traits into elite Cavendish varieties through breeding seems to be a distant, if not impossible, goal (Tang 2005; Heslop-Harrison and Schwarzacher 2007).

It must be processed fast, so CO2-spewing transport to distant ethanol plants is impossible (unlike for corn).