Liu was the outer possibility of the Chinese psyche, the chance that a 6-2 hurdler could compete with athletes from around the world.
"We were operating on the outer fringes of possibility," Butler said.
At the outer edge of possibility, terrorist groups could acquire nuclear capability.
Someone has a gun!' " In the list of dangerous things that Mr. Johnson has thought about encountering on his train, even a gunman seemed on the outer edge of possibility until that day.
For one to score 100 in a test innings is a feat on the outer edges of possibility, roughly analogous to an American League pitcher hitting multiple home runs in a World Series game.
On the other hand, pieces like Bach's extraordinary A-minor Prelude and Fugue from Book 2 of the "Well-Tempered Clavier" and the densely written and physically difficult D-minor English Suite ride along the outer edges of possibility with a confidence that seems to dwarf all other composers.
Arguably, the Amundsen of fin-de-siècle art — the first to plant a flag at an outer extreme of artistic possibility — was the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
Yet, while sports are inextricably connected to, and reflective of, larger political and cultural issues in our society, they are also about the men and women between the lines, performing at the outer edges of physical possibility — those who make the rest of us gasp, or smile, or shout out, envious and proud of the power and elegance of our fitter fellow humans.
Interestingly, in mouse oocytes, the Ndc80 complex is recruited to chromosomes only after nuclear envelope breakdown (Sun et al., 2011), raising the possibility that outer kinetochore assembly is also prevented in meiotic prophase I in vertebrates.
It is notable that all class I receptors examined have acidic residues proximal to the outer membrane, providing the possibility of a gating mechanism similar to the one we have described for the GH receptor.
