Sentence examples for impassable from inspiring English sources

The strain is likely to grow more acute as the government depends on helicopter gunships to extend its reach to parts of the country rendered impassable to logistics convoys and even armored vehicles by the rebels' improvised bombs.

It was impassable.

In pursuit of their own interests, Conservative speakers portrayed the nearby River Wye as an almost impassable barrier crossed by only a few, narrow bridges, and fretted that one proposed seat would involve a lot of driving for its MP.From Much Wenlock, a pretty town full of pricey houses, came a plea not to be lumped in with grittier Telford.

The defence was made impassable at the end of the day when Prussian troops arrived in large numbers.

The French thought the hills impassable: craggy, forested, foggy, riddled with caves.

A mantra, often repeated by Palestinians as well as Israelis, is that it should never again have a formal, impassable line running through it.

Its vast size and impassable interior seem to defy exploration, which is the allure for two talented novelists, one British and the other American.

The obvious drawbacks, as the manager of Japan's Famoso factory has learned, include an intermittent electricity supply; internet connections that are poor in the cities and almost non-existent outside them; dreadful roads that often become impassable in the monsoon season; and scarce and extremely pricey office space.Most of these physical problems can probably be fixed relatively quickly.

Even in the towns, residential streets are often impassable in an ordinary car.Pull off the road almost anywhere in the Navajo Nation, and the ground glistens with broken glass.

By late afternoon, it is near-bedlam: areas of the magazine rack are impassable, and the children's section is a combat zone.Until the advent in November of Borders, an American shop, Singapore's book market was dominated by uninspiring, locally owned shops which had a tendency to wrap their dearer hardbacks in plastic.

To get to the Mereb river, south of Enda Simeon, the Ethiopians had to march over mountains impassable to tanks and artillery.