Sentence examples for proved impossible to implement from inspiring English sources

On his second day in office, Mr Obama ordered Guantanamo be closed within a year, but it proved impossible to implement.

Equally, Thatcher's introduction of a "poll tax," an unpopular local tax that charged rich and poor alike at the same rate, proved impossible to implement and was scrapped within two years of its introduction at a cost of billions of pounds.

And the charter's most significant innovation, a "security clause" in which the king was subjected to the oversight of a panel of 25 barons, proved impossible to implement.

Research results published by the Institute for Social and Economic Research show that there are at least two practical ways to implement a citizen's income and that one of those methods could implement it very quickly: which could be helpful if universal credit proves impossible to implement.

At worst it will prove impossible to implement at all because of the politics of the here and now.The architects of the 1992 Maastricht treaty, who included Jacques Delors, then European Commission president, and Helmut Kohl, then German chancellor, always wanted political union to accompany the monetary union that the treaty envisaged.

Imputations proved impossible to outrun.

Nevertheless, the subject proved impossible to ignore.

The obstacles proved impossible to overcome.

This has proved impossible to cover up.

His fractious coalition proved impossible to manage.

Some holes proved impossible to fill.