Sentence examples for impossible not only from inspiring English sources

The task seemed impossible: not only did he have to turn around the troubled Nuggets, but build an arena in which a hockey team could also play.

US action is often portrayed as impossible, not only because of the alleged lack of firepower, but because Iranian facilities are too hard to target.

Despite this, Transmilenio is also a victim of its own success: its buses can be so densely packed with riders that it can be effectively impossible not only to board them, but even to disembark at the desired stop.

The Home Office does not collect data on crimes where knives have been used, as it does for firearms; and this currently makes it impossible not only to measure trends but also to evaluate the impact of policy.

The film jumps back and forth so much and the timeframe is so scrambled that it's impossible not only to tell who is being duplicitous with whom, but what the hell is going on.

After analysing Madoff's vague, broad-brush statements to clients, Markopolos concluded that it was impossible – not only was it mathematically inconceivable to smooth out all the ups and downs in the S&P index's performance, Madoff would need to use more options than existed on the entire Chicago Board Options Exchange, where nobody owned up to seeing any volume from Madoff's firm at all.

At the moment such a grand bargain is impossible, and not only because Paris and Berlin are far apart on policy.

The problem is that the 7th is an impossible hole, not only for the average hacker but for the best players in the world.

Such creations have now become an almost impossible sell, not only because online pundits would contest any fabrications but also because being a Communist doesn't carry the allure that it used to.

Mr Sharon's preference is to have the whole settlement issue delayed until the final negotiations in 2005.The Palestinians say that this is impossible, and not only because Israel can create a lot of facts on the ground between now and then.

But the mauves and purples of population-proportionate America remind us that there are married, churchgoing, rural DemocratS; that the American genius is for perpetual reinvention; that your country still retains that spirit of doing the impossible, which not only irrigated southern California but also desegregated the south.