His line was that, with 53,000 periodicals in Russia, "it would be absolutely impossible to control them, even if the state had any interest in doing so".
"As long as he continues to believe in his victory, it would be absolutely impossible for Russia to distance itself from him or try to persuade him to step down.
Mr. Mirsky said that Mr. Assad "believes that time is working for him," and until that changed, "It would be absolutely impossible for Russia to distance itself from him".
"Without the money that The New York Times provides, it would be absolutely impossible for us to do what we are doing here," said Mr. Ukpe, who runs the program.
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has invoked food scandals as examples of the "absence of integrity and a landslide of morality" in China, adding that, "It would be absolutely impossible for a state to become a truly powerful and respectful one if it did not see improvement of its national quality and moral strength".
"When Aaron approached me with his idea seven years ago, I thought it would be absolutely impossible to pull off something like this in less than a quarter of a century," Willis Patterson, a former associate dean of the School of Music at the University of Michigan, told a Sphinx gathering here.
A visitor from Tapei quietly told me there were no women owners of tea plantations - 'That would be absolutely impossible.' Over a dinner of a chicken impaled and roasted on a spike, its head still attached, with fiddlehead ferns and whole sprouting peanuts, the owner of the plantation put a different angle to me: 'Picking tea - it's women's work - it always has been.
To pull off some kind of conspiracy that is intentionally denying Bernie Sanders the Democratic nomination would be absolutely impossible.
If in three years, God forbid, the Falklands go because the Argentinians decide to invade, it would be absolutely, totally impossible for this country - even if we had an Army of 10 million - to go and do anything about it".
CLAPPER: It would be, absolutely.
It would be absolutely brilliant," Cech said.
