Sentence examples for potential impossibility from inspiring English sources

A common perception has been that the mandate of management agencies is to maintain public lands and waters unchanged, and the public may not recognize the potential impossibility of this goal.

Aristotle helped put an end to the rampant infiniphobia by drawing a distinction between what he called "actual" infinity, something that would exist all at once, at a given moment — which he declared an impossibility — and "potential" infinity, which would unfold over time and which he deemed perfectly intelligible.

Another potential limitation was the impossibility to have a gold standard body composition assessment, such as DEXA.

The government's insistence on a 1-year deadline to raise close to $4.5 billion dollars, was also seen as an impossibility by potential donors and undercut the proposal's perceived viability.

This approach has two major drawbacks: (i) the loss in accuracy due to the need to interpolate between look-up table entries; (ii) the practical impossibility to determine potential for asymmetric charge distributions due to extremely large memory requirements.

Kumārila would allow, in this regard, that a subsequent cognition concerning pragmatic efficacy could count as a potential source of falsification; the impossibility of carrying water with what had seemed to be a jar would indeed count as overriding the previously justified belief that one saw a jar.

Nevertheless, such an approach does not fully protect a potential bias owing to the impossibility taking into account all the studies with negative or non-significant results.

That fact persuaded both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that the Home Office was just the place for Mr Blunkett Mr Blair in the expectation that a populist toughie would be running Whitehall's trickiest and most accident-prone department; Mr Brown in the hope that a potential rival would be diminished by the impossibility of the job.

Despite the patient's medical history, considering his age, the lesion on the inner side of the lung suggested not only the impossibility of a pneumothorax but also other potential underlying diseases.

Let's assume we can put their potential innocence claims aside -- for me, a near impossibility.

In all such correlations causal relationships are hard to prove given the impossibility of a replicated study and the multiple potential influences.