But opponents say the harsh medicine is self-defeating, making it impossible for Greece to emerge from the eurozone's worst recession, which has now ground on for five years.
They will try to wrap a liberal skin around her so tightly that it will be impossible for her to emerge from it a year later, when she would be campaigning for the White House.
It's nearly impossible to ponder emerging resource-sharing technologies like Uber or Airbnb without thinking of the restrictive public policies — such as limiting ridesharing access at the airport — that often accompany them.
Comparisons between long-term relationships and impossible tasks are likely to emerge.
The market seems to be suggesting the deal is likely to go through, although analysts at Collins Stewart said it was not impossible for other bidders to emerge: It clearly wouldn't be too much of a stretch for industrial or other financial buyers to bid higher than 325p.
The third and unfortunately most likely outcome is that the bankers win in the short term and we continue to subsidize what are otherwise unsustainable business models and the bonuses they throw off, making it hard if not impossible for healthy alternatives to emerge at a scale that matters.
Some experts argue that Facebook has grown so large that it is nearly impossible for a viable alternative to emerge, despite the presence of other social networks.
By now, one prospect — a notion no one wants to ponder but is impossible to avoid — has begun to emerge in Iowa, as well as in Indiana, Minnesota and Illinois: the possibility that this summer might prove to be something like 1993, when the torment of flooding resulted in widespread personal misery and loss, as well as economic cost of $20 billion.
The outside help for his rivals may, of course, prove to have an upside for Mr. Romney: By keeping a half-dozen different candidates viable, the super PACs may inadvertently be making it impossible for one of them to emerge as the alternative to him.
