Sentence examples for impossible to effect from inspiring English sources

To the contrary, he says that the political system is so broken, and so in hock to big money, that it is virtually impossible to effect nearly any substantive progressive change.

On the basis of the principles of Greek geometry, it cannot be demonstrated, however, that it is impossible to effect by planar means certain solid constructions (like the cube duplication and angle trisection).

The problem is a classic one, as in Lessing's "Laocoön," from 1766, regarding the adaptation of a poem by a visual artist: The sculptor had to exercise his skill in embodying the highest degree of beauty, exhibited under circumstances of bodily pain; a combination which it would have been utterly impossible to effect, had the latter been depicted in all its hideous violence.

Idealizing to a certain extent, we say that A is true if we possess a construction method that, when effected, will yield a construction that is correctly described by A. According to Brouwer, to say that a proposition A is false then must mean that it is impossible to effect an appropriate construction; notation ¬A.

The net effect is that it's virtually impossible to effect lasting change through the courts.

While at times it seems impossible to effect the grinding, clanking machinery that controls public life, it's equally depressing to me that we've started treating the people we meet in our private lives in the same way we treat politicians: with a mixture of derision, apathy and cynicism.

Sheer quantity has made it almost impossible for a single creation to effect a sea change.

Rationale: After cardiac arrest, it is impossible to distinguish effects associated with the rewarming period from those attributable to induction and maintenance phase.

Moreover, it is impossible to anticipate effects of novel medical interventions during the lifetime of the contract.

With so many imponderables affecting investments, he added, "it's simply impossible to isolate the effect of performance fees from the effect of other variables".

Therefore it becomes impossible to separate the effect of RNA quality from the effect of the disease.