Sentence examples for impossible to exert from inspiring English sources

Their position was absurd, because it is impossible to exert this type of censorship in the electronic age.

But even a shadow of that sort of control has been impossible to exert over popular sites like Facebook and YouTube, where vast amounts of user-generated content are largely unsupervised.

Google has argued that it is impossible to exert monopoly control over the huge online marketplace, and has criticized some of the complainants for belonging to professional groups set up by its archrival, Microsoft.

He also campaigned far to the south of the Asturian mountains, but lack of manpower made it impossible to exert permanent control on the plains and, in his time, a wide, largely uninhabited no-man's-land came into being between Asturias and the settled territories of the emirate of Córdoba.

Instead, they argued that it would be impossible to exert real pressure on Iran now unless Mr. Obama made a bona fide effort to conduct a sustained dialogue with a country that Washington has only talked to in fits and starts over the past 31 years.

The cap made it impossible for a player to exert lip pressure on the large reed within, so the instrument could not be overblown.

Brandauer's Krapp is trying to exert the last physical act of which he is capable – the act of remembering – and even this is beginning to prove impossible.

One option is to exert private leadership.

We have to exert pressure gradually".

They are efforts to exert local control.

It's almost impossible to underestimate the importance of these movies, both for the impact that their startling realism had on the audiences and filmmakers of the time and for the influence they continue to exert on directors.