Sentence examples for makes it impossible to know from inspiring English sources

China executed thousands of people, though its secrecy about its use of capital punishment makes it impossible to know exactly how many.

Worldwide's profit margin runs at roughly half the industry average for TV distribution businesses, and the way the company reports its results by geographical territory rather than by business activity makes it impossible to know whether the tens of millions of pounds spent on building overseas production businesses and creating a network of global channels is money well spent.

Mr. Frayn said he was particularly interested in Heisenberg's celebrated uncertainty principle, which states that an irreducible quantum fuzziness, caused by the wavelike nature of matter on small scales, makes it impossible to know simultaneously both a particle's position and its momentum.

Russia's spotty system of medical accounting makes it impossible to know.

The government's opaque accounting makes it impossible to know how it has used the money.

Murky government accounting makes it impossible to know what portion of the total such treasures make up.

Nearly a year after the last fiscal year ended in June 2012, Illinois still hasn't filed its required annual financial report, making it impossible to know if the state continues its despicable practice of spending more than it collects in revenue.

As of Friday, the city had not yet submitted its revised plans to Albany, state officials said, making it impossible to know for sure whether the schools would continue to receive the money.

Texas' weak disclosure rules make it impossible to know how lucrative they were.

But increasingly convincing digital technologies can make it impossible to know where nonfiction ends and fiction begins.

Secret earmarks, which made it impossible to know which member had requested particularly egregious items, are now banned.