Sentence examples for impossible instead from inspiring English sources

Collingwood took the mysterious decision not to tag him, (perhaps writing it off as impossible), instead trying to tie down the cassowary kicking of Trent McKenzie.

Years of hostile headlines about the European Union have made sensible public debate of Britain's EU interests almost impossible: instead successive governments talk tough at home while pursuing pragmatism in Brussels.

Though Truman wanted to attend West Point, his poor eyesight made a commission impossible; instead, he went to Spalding's Commercial College in Kansas City, Mo., but dropped out for financial reasons.

Some medical researchers acknowledge that keeping patient data private is becoming almost impossible; instead, they're testing new ways to gain patients' trust and collaboration.

He and other practitioners of conversation therapy had built practices by promising the impossible instead of helping clients "cope with the news they didn't want to hear".

Alvarado described the terrain approaching the town as very difficult, covered with dense vegetation and swampland that made the use of cavalry impossible; instead he sent men with crossbows ahead.

Then on Wednesday, The Herald, the state-run newspaper, described the country's political dynamics as "so distorted that holding a free and fair election runoff in the immediate term is literally impossible," calling instead for a power-sharing government.

Not planning for this would have made certain aspects of university life impossible, but instead he was able to start term with a stash of disposable gloves and a book allowance from the DSAs which helped to reduce his reliance on borrowing books through the library.

Because the Nook App Store is limited by B&N, looking for common apps like "Rockplayer" is almost impossible, returning instead a list of books with those words in the titles.

Pepin also believes the rapid expansion through sex alone is mathematically impossible -- instead, he names a Port-au-Prince-based plasma center called Hemo-Caribbean as being one "amplifier" in the spread of the AIDS virus.

"Let's do away with all the firearms" prematurely ends a needed conversation with the proffering of a nearly logistically impossible task, instead of furthering movement toward a more harmonious dynamic.