Although all coalitions tend to be temporary, disbanding after a goal has been achieved (or proven unachievable, given the circumstances), some may persist longer than others.
We argued not only that the targets were likely to prove unachievable but attempting to achieve them would result in damaging cuts to public services and investment.
It had been widely assumed that this stringent target would prove unachievable — but the new study would appear to give us much more time to get our act together if we want to stay below it.
Ultimately this proved unachievable.
In the event this proved unachievable and instead Leicester employed William Spicer to rebuild and extend the castle so as to provide modern accommodation for the royal court and symbolically boost his own claims to noble heritage.
Briefly, the op-ed argues that the goal of "displacing the Assad regime has proven unachievable," so the U.S. should instead work toward a "U.S.-led contact group" on Syria that includes the Gulf States, Turkey, Iran and Russia.
The government's 2010 Intimidation Policy Framework advised departments to exercise caution when reviewing Afghan cases, since "any action they take might prove unachievable or unaffordable for another department in the future".
The most optimal HIV purging strategy would involve specific targeting of latently infected cells, but this may prove unachievable because there is no known distinguishing cell surface marker for a latently infected cell [42].
He always had that in his mind as the goal of his life, but it proved to be unachievable.
In routine clinical practice, deploying a stable and appropriately positioned array of microphonic pick-ups for extended periods may prove cumbersome or unachievable.
AKRON, Ohio — Ever since the concept of golf's modern Grand Slam was conceived by Arnold Palmer in 1960, the P.G.A. Championship has had the distinction of being the anchor leg of what has proved to be sport's unachievable quest — winning the Masters, the United States Open, the British Open and the P.G.A. in the same season.
