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It's partly a sense of being able to do something that ought to be impossible.
"From a chemical perspective, this ought to be impossible," the Nobel committee said.
Trying to break a good code without the key ought to be impossible even using the fastest computers imaginable.
It ought to be impossible to pass from being favourites for relegation to the third tier in August 2009 to ninth in the Premier League in January 2011.
Lock-up agreements on share sales invoke images of handcuffs: once a shareholder has agreed not to sell for a specified period, it ought to be impossible to be released from the commitment.
From Paris With Love, which stars Travolta as the maverick (read: insane) CIA agent Charlie Wax, is the sort of movie which ought to be impossible to make in the wake of Team America.
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That ought not to be impossible.
It ought not to be impossible to sort a forum out: but talks, of course, are only the start.
The idea was also supported by Leo Amery, the secretary of state for India from 1940 to 1945, who points out: "Lincoln Cathedral needs a lot of money for restoration and it ought not to be impossible to overcome their resistance".
If he'd been caught, "everybody would say that I had tried to do what I ought to have known to be impossible.
Federer is elegant and fluid and cerebral, so that his best tennis looks effortless even when he is making shots that ought to be physically impossible.
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