This kind of perfection is profoundly irritating, not to mention impossible to maintain.
My apartment is on the 25th floor, and without elevators it's infeasible to climb up and down to it every day, not to mention impossible to live in without heat or water.
Such an operation, while legal, would have been unheard-of — not to mention impossible — a mere 20 years ago.
Last week, for example, Lizette Alvarez wrote skillfully about the racial issues that had emerged, noting that "race lingers awkwardly on the sidelines, scarcely mentioned but impossible to ignore".
But in the courtroom where George Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder, race lingers awkwardly on the sidelines, scarcely mentioned but impossible to ignore.
It is an ethical minefield, not to mention virtually impossible to find research funding for.
With the highest fares in the nation, not to mention being impossible to hail or to find at a cab stand (as if there were any), they are losing money.
However, as mentioned, it is impossible to account for all potential differences between patients with different SUA levels in a retrospective study.
Although the low mean difference between the tests (2 s) suggests good reproducibility, the actual variability between the tests was not mentioned, making it impossible to compare these results to our study (Belardinelli et al. 1998).
So until we know variables mentioned above, it's impossible to say exactly what will happen if Boris Johnson is hit by a water cannon.
