Sentence examples for which appears impossible from inspiring English sources

Our exam results culture is defined by the vague discussion every year of "raising standards" – a phrase which appears impossible to oppose on reasonable grounds, until one realises that, depending on who is saying it, we could roughly translate it into either "making exam percentages improve" or "making exams tougher, and still expecting the percentages to improve".

This season, Grunfeld traded Arenas, which appeared impossible.

One did so in diamonds and another in no-trump, both of which appear impossible.

The values that taught us it is possible to fight an enemy like apartheid, which appeared impossible to defeat.

The Economiste Francais looks forward to seeing both enterprises carried out, in which case it appears impossible to calculate beforehand which of the two lines may obtain the principal part of the traffic.

It is impossible not to think of this moment, which appears once at the beginning and again near the end of the novel, when reading Strauss's new memoir, "Half a Life".

In soil (which appears as normal soil).

"If our army on the Continent was to be thrown away and shattered in an operation which appeared to him impossible, the war might continue indefinitely, at any rate for two or three years more.

Since no play exists without a situation, it appears impossible to detach the idea of a character from the situation in which he is placed, though it may seem possible after the experience of the whole play.

The feat frankly appears impossible.

Do the impossible, do what appears impossible.