Sentence examples for duties impossible from inspiring English sources

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The company sent Dr. Midei to Japan, but news of the controversy made his duties impossible, and he flew home.

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But as a practical matter, registering, holding on to your documents and even focusing on your civic rights and duties may be impossible when basic survival needs are at stake.

One is the widely-held belief that Italy's existing arrangements, involving two chambers with equal powers and identical duties, make it impossible to legislate at anything but snail's pace.

The low-level, repetitive nature of their job duties made it impossible for them to move upward toward a higher socioeconomic status.

And it's frightening because it replaces the impossible duty of infinite compassion with a duty that's entirely achievable but very, very hard: to find out why things are so bad, and to actually work to make them better.

Annan compared the job he will be leaving at the end of the month to both "a sacred duty" and "Mission: Impossible" — and raised the prospect of "a chaotic collapse".

Especially for the people in his life that he loves, a man looks at sacrifice as his duty — unpleasant but impossible to avoid.

"For a whole month in which off-duty time had been impossible, I had ceased to be aware of the visible world of the French countryside; my eyes had seen nothing but the wards and the dying, the dirt and dried blood, the obscene wounds of mangled men and the lotions and lint with which I had dressed them".

The director also took on screenwriting duties for 2006's Mission: Impossible III and 2011's Super 8, both of which were well-reviewed, though he handed duties to others for both Star Trek films.

Fox News attributed threats from Tom Cruise, stating, "to back out of his Mission: Impossible III promotional duties if Viacom didn't pull a repeat of the episode", as evidence of "bad blood" between Cruise and Viacom (which also owns Paramount Pictures, the distributor of MI III).

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