Sentence examples for impossible hurdle from inspiring English sources

IN New York, the cost of a co-op or condo can seem an impossible hurdle.

To hold the peace process hostage to Barghouti's release raises an impossible hurdle for any Israeli politician.

(Amending the constitution is hard, requiring agreement by super majorities of both chambers and three-quarters of the states, an almost impossible hurdle for such a controversial idea).

Paul H. O'Neill, the treasury secretary, said Mr. Daschle had created "an impossible hurdle" for the negotiators in insisting that any deal be supported by most Democrats.

But the porcine director's most cunning cameo came in Lifeboat, ingeniously navigating a seemingly impossible hurdle (one small boat, eight shipwreck survivors) by playing the "before and after" photos in a newspaper advertisement for dieting aid, Reduco Obesity Slayer.

Another Senate rule, which applies whether reconciliation is used or not, requires that the reforms enacted now not cause an increase in the deficit for decades to come, a difficult but probably not impossible hurdle to surmount.

These efforts have circumvented otherwise impossible hurdles in their manipulation and production that are only now advancing cyclic peptides/cyclotides as research probes and future pharmaceutical templates.

"He faces impossible hurdles to continue his political career, within the party and outside the party," said George Arzt, a veteran political consultant.

But the Tata group is revered in India for its ability to overcome seemingly impossible hurdles and it has formidable financial resources.

For Kimberly Vaughn, who talks matter-of-factly about the almost impossible hurdles she has faced in the past 14 months, Christmas 2011 could not have been more different from Christmas 2010.

Several factors were possibly at work, they said -- the most obvious being the stunning strategies of the defense team, Mike Ramsey, Dick DeGuerin and Chip Lewis, who overcame what looked like impossible hurdles standing between Mr. Durst and acquittal.