(a) Is not materially impossible

Reversing this shift quickly seems impossible.

Securitization made debt restructuring difficult, if not impossible.

Repatriation of Iraqis is unrealistic and definitely out of question for any foreseeable future.

When liquidity dries up, trading becomes impossible without a very sharp discount.

Of course, reforming and democratizing the Iraqi political system is not impossible.

But without democracy, no genuine, fair, and universally beneficial integration would be possible.

Prompt, high quality attribution is often difficult and costly, but not impossible.

A Bayrou victory, which is unlikely but not impossible, would constitute a triple revolution.

Shattering political monopolies is what democracy is all about.

The good news is that these elections make such a change of alliances politically inevitable.

But the Saudi dream of turning back the clock and to a minority Sunni ruled Iraq made realistic diplomacy impossible.

But now we have in the EU an organic system that makes war virtually impossible on the European Continent and reconciles the peoples who live here.

Hostage of an impossible coalition and of a settlement movement of free lance fanatics, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu s leadership is seriously compromised.

The lack of vegetation will result in the loss of oxygen in the atmosphere, so animal life will become extinct within several million more years.

Energy independence may be impossible for a country that consumes a quarter of the world s oil but has only 3 of its reserves.

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers hijacked the Iranian revolution in 1979, democracy became impossible the cleric had become a dictator.

As people complained on Twitter that the video feed wasn't working, the video streaming service confirmed that a DDoS attack was making it impossible to stream the event live.

The departing commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton Smith, has claimed that defeating the Taliban was neither feasible nor supportable.

Those who cling to old ideological stereotypes face an almost impossible task in reconciling China s rapid growth with what they condemn as China s failing system.

The US exported paddy rice, for example, at a price almost 20 lower than the cost of production in 2003, making it impossible for Central Americans to compete.

For decades they have created a zone where war has become unthinkable, where might is not right, where the poorer catch up with the richer.

Despite being well run and fundamentally more stable than other economies, the markets (or speculators ) are making it impossible for the eurozone s struggling members to achieve the necessary adjustments.

Whereas extraction of America s extensive reserves of natural gas was previously thought to be unfeasible, technologies such as hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) have ushered in a shale gas revolution.

In addition, because they belong to a new family, they often cannot go to school and are not able to work. It is impossible for them to become financially independent.

Versions 1.0 and 1.0B also included mandatory Bluetooth hardware device address (BD_ADDR) transmission in the Connecting process (rendering anonymity impossible at the protocol level), which was a major setback for certain services planned for use in Bluetooth environments.

Countries such as Nigeria, for example, have suffered horribly from terrorism based on a brand of religious extremism that is alien to their society. But, again, despite it all, the country is experiencing rapid economic growth and has just implemented a major reform widely considered impossible until recently of the power sector.

When credit decisions, public procurement, construction contracts, and price determination reflect only short term and purely political goals, good economic performance becomes impossible even in countries with large natural resource endowments.

But, again, despite it all, the country is experiencing rapid economic growth and has just implemented a major reform widely considered impossible until recently of the power sector.

A more hawkish fiscal stance may no longer be possible in future Democratic administrations, and might not be good policy if it were, given the likely complexion of successor administrations.

Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.

Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of another, or a pile of 10 trillion bananas.

Similarly, no deal with the opposition was possible regarding the inauguration ceremony thus the chaotic, depressing scenes of congressmen fighting it out in their chamber, while Calderón was ushered in through the back door for a rushed ceremony.