Sentence examples for hitherto impossible from inspiring English sources

Michel performed the hitherto impossible feat of crystallizing the membrane-bound protein complex to a pure crystalline form, thus making it possible to determine the protein's structure atom-by-atom by means of X-ray diffraction techniques.

These new techniques did two things: in some cases they provided information that it had been hitherto impossible to acquire (for example, images of the entire brain showing normal structures and disease processes such as tumours with great clarity); in others they supplanted former diagnostic techniques that had been more painful or dangerous – usually both.

Collectively, these technologies help bridge the fields of chemistry and biology, allowing hitherto impossible manipulations of protein covalent structure.

This consquence bears directly on our ability to see the right path to a true physics which was hitherto impossible.

Developments in sensor design, electronics, computer technology and networking have converged to provide new ways of collecting environmental data at rates hitherto impossible to achieve.

XMT allowed non-invasive imaging of sample cross-sections at various depths, and facilitated accurate and hitherto impossible measurements of features like true cell size distribution (bi-modal), average diameter (0.58 to 2.27 mm), open wall area fraction (0.068 to 0.099), cell wall thickness (0.09 to 0.15 mm), and true void fraction (0.63 to 0.84).

That has hitherto been impossible because of Mr Trichet's dogged insistence that any Greek restructuring be "voluntary".

In 2011, he and his colleagues announced the invention of a device that had hitherto seemed impossible: an integrated silicon circuit with the mechanical properties of skin.

The Scottish National Party has achieved what was hitherto deemed impossible north of the border – an overall majority in parliament in a system designed to give no party an overall majority.

The deployment of macromolecular sequencing in microbial classification has provided a deep evolutionary taxonomy hitherto deemed impossible.

Improvements in the design of synchrotron radiation sources have made it possible to undertake experiments on objects of cultural heritage experience which had hitherto been impossible.