Sentence examples for impossible attempts from inspiring English sources

Some exceptions are also made for "impossible attempts", which are divided into legal impossibility, impossibility through ineptitude and physical impossibility.

Putnam, by arguing that such a scenario is impossible, attempts to show that this notion of a gap between man's concept of the world and the way it is, is in itself absurd.

It was an almost impossible attempt to make an exhibition just about the way artists have used bronze, but the curator got such great loans that it was a five-star sensation.

Real utopia, Murdoch suggests, exists not in a primitive isolationist lifestyle inspired by William Morris, but in the ongoing struggle to be as virtuous as we can and "find the connexion", the always incomplete and ultimately impossible attempt to generate an imaginative sympathy with others that has little to do with any specific form of faith but comes simply from love.

The Rockets' front office has picked up a glitch in Battier's philanthropic approach to the game: in the final second of any quarter, finding himself with the ball and on the wrong side of the half-court line, Battier refuses to heave it honestly at the basket, in an improbable but not impossible attempt to score.

Any Brexit difficulties "pale into insignificance against the prospect of remaining shackled to a declining European Union which is desperately trying to grab more and more centralising powers in the impossible attempt to manage the growing roar of rejection from its own member citizens.

Now control from the centre of any mainstream party is impossible, and attempts to pull levers cause a Twitter storm within seconds.

It's impossible to attempt to do both.

It is virtually impossible to attempt a unitary characterization of nonfictional prose.

I think it is impossible to attempt a close reading of a poem in a language one doesn't know.

Working out who is really in charge is almost impossible.Even attempting to do so takes you into sensitive territory.