Booth says that to achieve this effect with no computer assistance whatsoever would have required 8,640 cameras (one for each frame of the six-minute video) — a physical impossibility, considering the splash is about the size of a quarter.
Another poignant tale describes how his 3-year-old son was shot dead by a Yankee soldier for waving a small rebel flag – an impossibility, considering Ferguson's only son had died of illness in 1847.
Even if a manual recount is performed flawlessly (an impossibility considering the charged atmosphere under which such recounts occur), the mark made by a voter may not be counted because the states have developed different and obscure criteria for what constitutes a valid optical vote.
Both Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner from China, who is a literary critic by profession, and Mario Vargas Llosa, the literature laureate from Peru, testify to the impossibility of considering aesthetic matters in isolation from social and political movements.
The opposition corrects what Thompson described as, "the dualistic separation of consciousness and life [that] makes it impossible to understand coconsciousness in its basic form …" But, furthermore, by implication, dualistic separations perpetuate the impossibility of considering plants as intelligent at all.
The impossibility theorem considers cases in which three or more agents make a collective choice from three or more alternatives in situations as diverse as democratic voting, establishing public policies that reflect social welfare, and the marketplace.
Considering the impossibility to cover the entire population of an endangered species in protected areas, a new approach (species conservation redlines) was recently been proposed in China.
Considering the impossibility of predicting the effect of volume expansion on arterial pressure and the high rate of non-responders, cardiac output monitoring or estimation could help to guide therapy in hypotensive patients whose arterial pressure does not increase after fluid challenge or who are at risk of fluid overload.
Mainly considering the limited sample size and the practical impossibility to increase its size, we used an adaptive permutation procedure to control the type I error [23].
Considering the continuous discovery of doping cases and the impossibility of eradicating doping practices, the basic inequality between undiscovered doped athletes and 'clean' athletes is likely to persist.
Considering the non-interventional nature of the study and the impossibility of obtaining the patients' informed consent before their enrolment in the study, the study was authorized by the concerned institutional ethics committee without informed consent.
