Sentence examples for past the possibility from inspiring English sources

In the past the possibility of ice jams was great, with notable ice catastrophes occurring in 1642, 1838, and 1896.

Norman could examine, as the broadcaster's management tentatively has in the past, the possibility of taking some channels on to pay-TV.

Here's what he said in a noteworthy 1978 interview in Film Comment with Terry Curtis Fox, on the occasion of the release of "An Unmarried Woman," which I consider his greatest film (and which, shockingly, is unavailable on DVD or streaming video): In the past, the possibility of change wasn't psychologically really a fact.

In the park, away from the drone of state-controlled television and its reminders of how entrenched Russia often remains in its past, the possibility of living in a city where people feel as free and empowered as those in New York or London seems  tantalizingly near.

In the past, the possibility of different extension efficiencies was discussed as a mechanism for the increase of the mutation rates of 5mC in vivo.

"I knew he was performing a desire he didn't feel," writes the unnamed narrator in the novel's opening pages, "and really I think he was drunk past the possibility of desire.

Once you let go of what you shoulda-woulda-coulda done differently in the past, the possibilities that lie ahead are limitless.

Current health insurance policies are actually stifling what has made this country a financial powerhouse in the past -- the possibility that anyone can make it to the top if he or she is smart and works hard enough.

"Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language.

So the plantation is the past, and the possibility of a future -- and that's more palpable now, two decades later, when we can try Vietnam as tourists.

"We can draw these very clear parallels from the past for the possibility of the destruction of our culture," he said.