Sentence examples for scarcely possible that from inspiring English sources

BAZILEVSKY: I believe that these executions were carried out under such circumstances that I think it scarcely possible that any Russian witnesses could be present.

It is scarcely possible that all of them would have forgotten the general nature of his incriminating testimony or that any serious conflict would arise therefrom.

The third, Foster, says that in "a controversy between two nations concerning national boundary, it is scarcely possible that the courts of either should refuse to abide by the measures adopted by its own government". 2 Pet., at 307.

Even if the party were deprived of a trial by jury, the statute is not, therefore, necessarily unconstitutional.' Indeed, it is scarcely possible that any actual injustice could be done in the practical administration of the act.

The atmosphere was more subdued than normal as Molineux looked enormous and we'd learnt the game was a sell-out, yet it seemed scarcely possible that all of the black-and-yellow seats would be filled by kick-off.

And yet, until we met it had seemed scarcely possible that the author of The Emperor of All Maladies could really be an actual doctor and not a writer, so exquisitely is his book crafted and paced.

That is scarcely possible these days, a fact that may not impress wealthy immigrants from the East and West Coasts but stuns most Houstonians, who are not accustomed to breathtaking real estate prices.

By being detached, it attains an utterly unsentimental, anti-rhetorical poise that would seem scarcely possible in art that touches on atrocity.

That's scarcely possible... Anyway, tell me about your love life, even if it only extends to "the love of Test cricket" or "the love of Chris Rogers' brown, manky arm guard".

We do not say the company could not interpose this defense in an action to recover penalties or upon the trial of an indictment (St . Louis& S. F. R. Co. v. Gill, 156 U. S. 649, 39 L. ed. 567, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 484), but the facility of proving it in either case falls so far below that which would obtain in a court of equity that comparison is scarcely possible.

Along with the Orion Nebula and the Praesepe cluster, Messier's inclusion of the Pleiades has been noted as curious, as most of Messier's objects were much fainter and more easily confused with comets—something that seems scarcely possible for the Pleiades.