Sentence examples for obvious impossibility from inspiring English sources

South did not see the diamond jack clearly and called "ace," an obvious impossibility.

Even if someone could guarantee that the market will always be "up" no matter when you retire (an obvious impossibility), little attention has been paid to other consequences.

To underscore this, Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, said he had calculated that if the decline in homicide in the 1990's continued at the same rapid rate, the United States would have no killings in 2007, an obvious impossibility.

And it may be contended that most of the arguments of this sort which are at all compelling involve appealing to the obvious impossibility that an event might prevent its own occurrence, and to the slightly less obvious impossibility that an event might bring about its own occurrence.

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There was a ramp leading up to the door of the church, but in order to get to the bottom of the ramp, I would have to climb up several steps, an obvious impossibility for anyone, like me, in a wheelchair.

That truth is the inconvenient one, both to politicians who must pledge obvious impossibilities in the popularity contest of election, and corporations, who have learned that the simplest way to sell something is to claim that it costs nothing.

Some experts have called the lifts frauds and obvious physical impossibilities for anyone, much less a man in his 70's standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 170 pounds.

First, in addition to the obvious and avowed impossibility of actually accessing all people in order to come to agreement with them, Schleiermacher also identifies a further obstacle in the way of reaching, or even making significant progress towards, agreement with them: the deep differences which occur between different languages and modes of thought.

However, he devises a method to build an epistemic space that discriminates between obvious and subtle impossibilities.

(Volume II, Part Five: "After the engagement of Prince Andrei and Natasha, Pierre, without any obvious reason, suddenly felt the impossibility of going on with his former life…") After a sold-out run in midtown last year, the show has moved to a white tent in the Meatpacking District, tricked out inside like a louche Russian supper club.