As Druett acknowledges, for instance, it's nearly impossible to document the lives of cross-dressing sailors because their stories, as rendered through newspaper clippings, often end in suspiciously convenient love matches with fellow seamen.
"This often makes it impossible to document the discrimination," Garina explained.
However, it was impossible to document the degree of disturbance precisely by counting the number of aggressive encounters between larvae during the experiment.
Low levels of surveillance and testing, and a heightened sense of taboo and stigma has made it almost impossible to document the reality of the epidemic.
Reticence is a typical trait of many new small-business owners and entrepreneurs of both genders, and I would posit that, while nearly impossible to document, this trait plays a dominant role in the demise of the majority of small businesses that fail.
Since thermometers were not available at that time, it remains impossible to document this critical vital sign, but since poisoning was specifically mentioned by Plutarch, we felt we could not ignore this possibility.
Although it is impossible to document it, the change in the climate from a cold, wet one to a warm, drier climate -- it had more rainfall, but more evaporation reduced bogs and marshy areas -- seems likely to have played a significant role.
While it is impossible to document with certainty the extent of the death penalty for juvenile offenders internationally, the State Department, the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty International report that the only countries other than the United States to have carried out such executions in the last 10 years are Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Germany can freeze assets — it has frozen more than two hundred accounts since September — but the law makes it nearly impossible to document, let alone trace, the kinds of banking transactions that might open a paper trail through the terror network.
The problem is the paperwork makes impossible to document losses and if you sign, the implication is that this is the final payment.
13Although the availability of demographic and statistical data on mobile pastoralists is improving, it is impossible to document with any accuracy any transformations in the numbers of these populations over the last half century (Randall 2015).
