Sentence examples for impossibility said from inspiring English sources

Observers as far back as Pliny the Elder, Mr. Connor writes, "thought no creature 'less teachable or less intelligent.' " And yet a pet fly is not an impossibility, said Dave Kapell of Minneapolis.

Executives at Fannie Mae, the government-controlled mortgage finance giant, also noticed that some young people perceived homeownership as an impossibility, said Jonathan Lawless, vice president of customer solutions at Fannie Mae.

"It was pretty thrilling to get the return birds back, because their migratory feat in itself is on the brink of impossibility," said Bill DeLuca, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the paper's first author.

However, Likharev's scheme required atomic manipulation of the nanowires a manufacturing impossibility, says Williams.

More than half a century later, the refugee population has grown from about 700,000 to at least 3.8m, making the return of all of them an impossibility, says Israel.

"For many, the prospect of working until 70 or 80 will be unpleasant and for those with manual jobs it might be a physical impossibility," says Morten Nilsson, chief executive of Now Pensions.

'Initially, the insurers wanted us to recast and reshoot within four weeks but that was an impossibility,' says the director, whose previous films include Brazil, The Fisher King and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as Baron Munchausen, an equally ambitious Hollywood studio backed film which spiralled over budget back in 1989.

"The movie piles impossibility on impossibility," he said in a lecture at Emory University in Atlanta, raising questions over how the characters end up at the Taj Mahal, 1,000 miles from where they were in the previous scene, and how they manage to get their hands on a gun in India.

"To build in the Hudson River is an impossibility," Donald J. Trump said.

"But that would be an impossibility," she said.

"Even at 16, I knew the scene was romantic to the point of impossibility," she said.