Sentence examples for if not impossibility from inspiring English sources

In response to comments pointing out the inherent difficulty (if not impossibility) of a G-SIB PCS provider assessing the extent of each client's "reliance" on its PCS services, the Final Guidance clarifies that a U.S. G-SIB should identify clients as key from the U.S. G-SIB's perspective, rather than from the client's perspective, using quantitative and qualitative criteria.

If, in the case of a pressure operated microphone, one tries to avoid this trouble by determining the pressure calibration by the resonant tube1 or thermophone methods and by calculating the increase in sensitivity due to reflection from the microphone, the difficulty, if not impossibility, of making this calculation rigidly for practical forms of microphone is encountered.

These conclusions, Dr. Brownlee adds, "aroused much opposition, partly inspired by the fear that the uniqueness of Christ was at stake, but securely grounded upon a careful study of the texts adduced by Dupont-Sommer himself and proving the tenuousness (if not impossibility) of the constructions that he had placed upon them".

Though "Lady Lazarus" has its own story line about the difficulty -- if not impossibility -- of getting the Beatles to license their songs for television, Mr. Weiner said the use of "Tomorrow Never Knows" was not meant to be self-referential or self-congratulatory. "Even people who are not in the clearances and rights business were struck by the fact that that was actually the Beatles," he said.

This would pose an insurmountable challenge, if not impossibility, to a correction officer at a prison.

Pregnancy) This digression illustrates the difficulty if not impossibility of an ontologically precise formal reconstruction of seemingly simple close-to-language predicates.

"We are faced with the immense difficulty, if not the impossibility, of verifying the past.

Standard thinking in the field pointed out the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of modifying personality traits.

There is also the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of reading motives, because these images go beyond mere dressing up.

Apart from any other consideration, we are faced with the immense difficulty, if not the impossibility of verifying the past.

That a single party should exercise a monopoly of political power indefinitely is, he reckons, if not an impossibility, then highly unlikely.