He said the court was imposing "impossible conditions" on him.
"You are trying to impose impossible conditions on me – a lawyer I do not want," he said at the hearing.
It seemed to impose impossible conditions on the Palestinians, such as requiring them to reform their administration in the West Bank and Gaza, even while those areas were newly occupied by the Israeli army, and to ditch Yasser Arafat, their perennial president.
They came to Seattle not to wreck the W.T.O. but to get a better deal from it, and they resent the protesters who want to keep them out by imposing impossible labor and environmental standards.
For example, if we alert when we should be informing, we unnecessarily increase costs and make the long-term (or the widespread) precautions that are imposed impossible to sustain.
The suburban and exurban lifestyles, hinged to two-car families and constant trips to work, school and Wal-Mart, might become unaffordable or, if gas rationing is imposed, impossible.
Why, the Royal Bank of Scotland avidly sought to fill its boots by going after small businesses and imposing impossible terms and conditions on loans and overdrafts in a practice known internally as "the dash for cash".
From Botticelli's Venus to Titian's Flora, the greatest artists dedicated their genius to imposing impossible standards of beauty on a world that, in reality, was scarred by pox, ravaged by poverty and untouched by hygiene.
NAIROBI, Kenya — United Nations officials intensified their criticism of the American government on Wednesday, saying that Washington was imposing "impossible" conditions on aid deliveries for Somalia and holding up tens of millions of dollars of desperately needed food based on unfounded accusations that it would be diverted to terrorists.
