I have publicly said that it has proved impossible to make progress to limit promotions on unhealthy foods and that stronger policies are needed.
This approach maintains that it is impossible to make progress toward healthy relations if Russia does not do its part in respecting existing treaties, political commitments and institutions.
But the next round of European Parliament elections will be in May 2014, and the European Commission and European Council will be reappointed only a few months later, making it all but impossible to make progress on any substantive issue until the new leadership is in place.
"It is impossible to make progress on any major issues," Edgar said, "unless the people take back politics from the moneyed interests".
But at the end of the day, if you don't have a roof over your head -- to organize your life, to speak with your children, to plan for the future -- it is almost impossible to march forward and to make progress".
Edward D. Reiskin, the new chief of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, has begun to make progress with the nearly impossible project of winning over the city's embittered transit riders.
"Without a change in Pakistani behavior, it will be difficult if not impossible for international forces and the Afghan government to make progress against the insurgency," he wrote.
Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, says that "in the end, it was just impossible to make any progress [at The Mount]".
It seemed clear that, unless all sides made the most of the lull in violence, and pushed forward with the peace plan, they risked a return to the cycle of attacks and counter-attacks, in which it would be all but impossible to make any progress.
Hammond predicted he would get "nothing but flannel" from the Russians in response to his allegations, but said details of the attacks were being compiled, and warned if Moscow did not change its tactics it would be impossible to make any progress in peace talks in Geneva.
Progressives, on the other hand, need to recognize that it will be virtually impossible to make meaningful progress on most issues important to them, even existential ones, without weakening corporatism.
