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"impossibility" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] impossibility (of something/of doing something) the fact of not being possible
  2. [countable, usually singular] something that is not possible

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Pilcher ends nearly every chapter by admitting the impossibility or near impossibility of cloning the animals under review.
What points to the impossibility of producing an exhibition also points to the impossibility of building a functioning world.
This isn't just a double standard — it's a metaphysical impossibility.
Therefore, you can speculate in terms of possibility or impossibility.
It's an impossibility that Britain can function without European staff.
This might seem like an impossibility, but it really isn't.
The impossibility of understanding Friston had become an online meme.
And an indictment of Hillary Clinton is not an impossibility.
The impossibility of flight from this place is uncannily underscored.
We stayed a long while petting the impossibility of her.
An evacuation of the entire city is a logistical impossibility.
It seemed like a joke -- an impossibility -- until it wasn't.
But the impossibility of the campaign is also what inspired it.
Figuring out exactly how to be perfectly ethical is an impossibility.
Maybe they're making a point about the impossibility of total reinvention.
Republican control of Congress makes Medicare for all a virtual impossibility.
Unsurprisingly, there is extreme war-weariness and a sense of impossibility.
He saw, instead, the impossibility of flying these planes at all.
Gathering and labeling data describing every conceivable situation is an impossibility.
For other cities, demolition still remained a political and practical impossibility.
Mr. Begin had long stressed the impossibility of a Palestinian state.
The impossibility of determining a person's innermost beliefs and private opinions?
Without the support of black voters, it could be an impossibility.
I thought with irritation about the impossibility of a female Quixote.
Theresa May's intractability must be an occasion to demand her impossibility.
No one can give it to them, because it's an impossibility.
"On the Impossibility of Capturing a Sunset" (2017) is another showstopper.
But any sort of national conversation about food is an impossibility, sadly.
And the impossibility of this choice is not just a 2016 problem.
It's a two-minute film about honesty, about the impossibility of communication.
The impossibility of completing this project is also the challenge to continue.
Traveling to the other side of the globe is not an impossibility.
The impossibility of knowledge turns out to be a precondition for writing.
First, a treaty-based prohibition against nuclear weapons is a practical impossibility.
His was another lesson in the near impossibility of working for Trump.
Now records, itchy even in their impossibility, wait impatiently to be smashed.
Brainwashing was a farce, a scientific impossibility, and indoctrination can be positive.
This humiliating practice was meant to illustrate the impossibility of racial equality.
Usually it flags the impossibility of knowing — truly knowing — whom to believe.
After her record took off, going out in public became an impossibility.
Poems are really about language—ultimately, about the impossibility of fixed meanings.
Some should not be broken, especially if they constitute a mathematical impossibility.
New books describe the architecture of (near) impossibility, both real and imagined.
In 2012 we'd achieved what many pundits believed was a political impossibility.
We had to raise $703 million to satisfy them, which we -- impossibility.
She showed us how to be brave in the face of impossibility.
The impossibility of these moral questions is the true magic Dontnod has created.
The impossibility of this story begins with the very character of Ted Cruz.
Jack is right on unemployment–the new jobless claims make 7.8% an impossibility.
I think those are ways you can relate to desire, longing, and impossibility.
That would only serve to widen inequality and make escaping poverty an impossibility.
Then, at some point, you realize the anatomical impossibility of what's going on.
Though impossibility looms overhead, researchers still think it's worth it to keep going.
Escape from oneself, or, rather, its impossibility, is one of the novel's preoccupations.
Ms. Myers can now sleep with the windows open, an impossibility in Chelsea.
"When I began, people were saying that was an impossibility," Mr. Trump said.
It is more than just an engineering impossibility — it is an existential cheat.
It expresses empathy for the performer, but also the seeming impossibility of redemption.
"My mother looked at that like an impossibility," That only inspired her more.
One of the communist regime's key weaknesses was the impossibility of passing on wealth.
Philosophical doubt, and the impossibility of the ideal, form part of the national character.
Most Pyongyang-watchers believe this is an impossibility, at least for the near term.
As the days passed, however, the impossibility of it began to dawn on me.
Unfortunately, her inability to get down to 135 lbs rendered this shot an impossibility.
Still, sometimes I find clips that manage to knock me over with utopian impossibility.
For those who don't have DACA status, paying for college can be an impossibility.
People started to grow tired of the puzzle—its impossibility taunted them, mocked them.
Consider the sheer impossibility of absorbing all of the music released in a year.
Errol Louis: Sanders approaches the point of statistical impossibility Joe Biden's powerful performance in Florida illustrates why Bernie Sanders is quickly approaching the point of statistical impossibility, when he cannot hope to match or exceed the number of delegates Biden has amassed.
Even as the world record drifted toward impossibility, nobody who was watching the race cared.
But if everyone goes down that dark path, it will be an utterly devastating impossibility.
While all the food was good, I think about the impossibility of choosing a favorite.
Booker's proposal is about acknowledging that impossibility, vacating the battlefield, and tending to the wounded.
Yet for many, the possibility of returning anytime in the near future seems an impossibility.
And it allows them to rip away their false notions of impossibility surrounding the SAT.
We are certainly in a place where the idea of eternal impossibility does not exist.
They've also been evidence of the ultimate impossibility of guarding against every kind of attack.
Then comes the added weight of the near impossibility of becoming known outside of Cuba.
Coleman and Sewell successfully convey the mutual desire and impossibility of love between the two.
Our tasks were reduced such that overlap became not just an impossibility but a nonconcern.
A choice between total control and total dissolution, each inhabiting its own realm of impossibility.
As Mr. Reynolds visited villagers, he was struck by the impossibility of their daily existence.
Instead, they vented about the impossibility of doing their job in a department in meltdown.
The story of this year is one of the impossibility of à la carte legitimacy.
The truth of Kevin's claim wasn't a total impossibility, I had to admit to myself.
But it can be a reminder of the danger, or impossibility, of crossing the border.
A loyalty oath is something that, two or three years ago, would've been an impossibility.
But the near impossibility of getting fired is only part of the crisis of impunity.
Some measures already exist, but councils are hamstrung by the near-impossibility of enforcing them.
Do these events amount to a case study in the impossibility of rehabilitating a terrorist?
Demarcation is an impossibility and for that briefest of moments, Flo Rida is truly free.
It's yet another symptom of the impossibility of existing as a woman in the world.
While many in Washington bemoan it for not having completely eliminated enrichment in Iran (an impossibility) or for not somehow permanently punishing the country (also an impossibility), the real flaw is that negotiators never foresaw someone like Trump becoming President of the United States.
For Apple, Facebook, and others, augmented reality shifted from sci-fi impossibility to near-future product.
Yet the groups have different rules and philosophies; merging them is a technical and political impossibility.
"It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces," she tweeted.
Ellis's images represent both his longing for an Edenic family life and the impossibility of it.
Or at least that way we can realize its ultimate impossibility — and that's not nothing, either.
And for most great black athletes in the 210s and '232s, that was an N.F.L. impossibility.
Look at Wisconsin, where state Republicans gerrymandered the seats to make Democratic control a near impossibility.
One of the main benefits of cooking sous vide is that overcooking is a near impossibility.
Tuesday night affirmed that new reality for Republicans, and the near-impossibility of successfully navigating it.
Before long, what still seems like a monstrous impossibility today will start to feel very normal.
Perhaps it was the impossibility of not changing course when presented with such an obvious landmark.
Drifters represent the impossibility of pursuing any goal without in some way contributing to its frustration.
The potential impossibility of conviction itself is an important message for the public to take in.
After that, under Senate rules, they will need 290 votes, which they acknowledge is an impossibility.
The city is in this position because the union contract makes dismissing teachers a virtual impossibility.
The intensity of lifelessness on the moon, the impossibility of species existing there, is a mirror.
Her work aspires toward the absolute — toward utopic, formalist transcendence — even while acknowledging its absurd impossibility.
It's an impossibility, of course — you never truly succeed, because the present is so very present.
"Trying to remove a prohibition that's been put in place is a political impossibility," Zinatelli continued.
That's cool because scientific efforts to explain color only underline the impossibility of any certainty, anyway.
Nasreen's memoir is a valuable companion text to Afternoon of a Faun, because they are two books about the same thing: the impossibility of knowing another person's truth, and the impossibility of ever really being able to communicate what it's like to live inside your own head.
The result is a fascinating exploration of the impossibility of interpreting one's vision beyond a certain point.
In fact, the power of this song seems to come from the impossibility of the protagonist's desire.
They are heat-treated and bathed in chemicals to sanitise them (an impossibility for blood for transfusion).
A Senate vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial is now a mathematical impossibility.
For young people, buying a house seems like an impossibility -- just renting an apartment is difficult enough.
After claiming she understood the impossibility of having her cake, May then proceeded to propose eating it.
A quiet high school girl had revealed possibility to people in a town that once saw impossibility.
He will repeatedly tell you that there's an "air of impossibility" to his journey from Rockford, Ill.
And for a book that separates the sexes, the sudden impossibility of heterosexual sex goes strangely unnoticed.
How many more denunciations of the costs and practical impossibility of Medicare for All shall we endure?
So, this begs the question- what is the next big impossibility the United States can stand behind?
It become an impossibility once both were swept aside despite a late attempt to restore their alliance.
"The impossibility of aging gracefully in the back of the house is rarely reported," Charlotte Druckman writes.
The absence of these accounts wordlessly validates the impossibility of integration at the most intimate, personal level.
As a nation we need to accept a basic truth: The phrase "sugar substitute" is an impossibility.
There will be no disciplinary action for attendance based on health or impossibility to come to work.
Or if impeachment is a political impossibility, are there grounds here for an old-school criminal prosecution?
When the world no longer continues to function, life on Earth will be an impossibility for humanity.
The near impossibility of surprising at big events has led some companies to do away with them altogether.
What terrifies me the most is the impossibility for people to imagine anything else after this, after capitalism.
Given our polarized time, the impeachment of the president seems an impossibility, as long as Republicans control Congress.
It's not just a matter of ignoring public opinion, but of the impossibility of bridging this particular gap.
While she hoped Khloé could fill that role, her little sister's aforementioned fertility issues made that an impossibility.
But it hesitated over the near-impossibility Mr. Sanders would face in getting his revolutionary programs through Congress.
The resulting promise of the phrase, then, is an impossibility: transforming facts to the level of the spectacular.
Each scenario is a biological impossibility unless your name is Arnold Schwarzenegger and you're in the movie Junior.
Issues of such complexity are paralyzing, and awareness of them can plunge us into mindsets hinged on impossibility.
It's hard for a stock to outrun the gravity of its sector; not an impossibility, but low probability.
But last week's CNN report shows the virtual impossibility of such efforts for an empire of Google's scale.
But overturning Roe is not a legal or political impossibility, it's not a radical departure for our country.
The writers room originally shrugged off the impossibility of such a crime before a personal story was shared.
Trying to feed such huge facilities with sufficient waste day in, day out would be a logistical impossibility.
It illustrates the kind of trouble in paradise and impossibility for secrecy that plagues Ibiza and Thailand retreats.
Always, a larger goal is in mind: the absurdities and bathos and impossibility of How We Live Now.
It's a narratively nimble show that's thematically about routine, emotional fidelity and the possibility, or impossibility, of reinvention.
Opinion: Sanders approaches the point of impossibility Joe Biden swept "Super Tuesday 3" in Florida, Illinois and Arizona.
I shook my head at the impossibility of it all, and sitting here writing this, I still do.
Tidying just once, by following the method to the uncompromising point of perfection, assures the impossibility of regressing.
For smartphones that continue increasing in prices, including ours, is definitely not out of the realm of impossibility.
Of late, though, this project has run into some of the same difficulties that made theirs an impossibility.
Remember that, like President Trump's election that same year, Brexit was dismissed as an impossibility, until it happened.
It's nearly an impossibility to successfully sue police for their official acts due to the legal immunity they enjoy.
When you fled your home, quickly grabbing whatever belongings you could, carrying lots of sanitary pads was an impossibility.
Not too bad considering the relative impossibility of making it out of Toronto without an OVO or XO cosign.
I now have a 7-month-old child and am scratching my head at the impossibility of this notion!
Musk disproved most assumptions about the near-impossibility of creating a brand new car company out of whole cloth.
Hamilton: The problem with making the record in Brooklyn is the space, and the impossibility of getting a room.
She acknowledges this but points out the near impossibility of an existence removed from the waste involved in creation.
Kenneth Arrow's famous "impossibility theorem" demonstrates that there is no perfect voting system, and majority rule is no exception.
"We hypothesize the near impossibility of exploring new planets without carrying and/or delivering any microbial travellers," they wrote.
The bigger picture here is the impossibility of disentangling our understandings of power, law, and process from substantive worldviews.
But the work is not straightforward, as counting damaged trees in even a modest forest is a practical impossibility.
Although our families often want to help, as mine certainly did, that frequently proves to be a practical impossibility.
"The impossibility of accessing the mineral resources made the Angostura project economically inviable for the company," the letter said.
She refuses to take them to a homeless shelter, but she acknowledges the impossibility of life as it is.
"There will be no disciplinary action for attendance based on health or impossibility to come to work," she said.
If anything, collective memory is the compilation of individual memories, demonstrating the impossibility of official memories, or official histories.
"These facts underscore the impossibility of return for the nearly one million Rohingya refugees, mostly in Bangladesh," it added.
Jackson's project, to finally isolate it and put it up onstage, is impossible, and its impossibility is its power.
It was about the isolation of our civilization and the impossibility of finding peers to contact in our endless space.
Maybe it's the iPhone X. The impossibility of the ideal phone is driven by our constantly rising standards of expectation.
Another is the impossibility of borrowing goods and services from future generations, who are not yet alive to produce them.
Sadly the war started five years later, and at this point seeing it as it once was is an impossibility.
It seemed as much of an impossibility as sneakers becoming the go-to shoe, and look how that turned out.
In fact, product branding aside, an "algorithmic timeline" is actually a logical impossibility, because those two words have opposite meanings.
Gyllenhaal admitted to being intimidated when he first met Bauman, knowing the impossibility of matching the reality of Bauman's experience.
In doing so, she contests years of feminist scholarship claiming the impossibility of such a woman wanderer of the streets.
Mr. Arrow's "impossibility theorem" says that there is no mechanism that can coherently speak for the will of the people.
Yet the central message of the book is the impossibility of learning anything that matters from a guru or teacher.
This was destined to be another example of the impossibility in Washington of deviating from unflinching support of Israel's policies.
The book is, in both theme and execution, one of the great artistic statements of the impossibility of human perfection.
Overriding his veto would require two-thirds of Congress, which is a near-impossibility on the highly divided Capitol Hill.
Effective defense systems could do what no treaty could ever do: make the use of nuclear weapons a practical impossibility.
Barcelona's season ended, effectively, on Tuesday night, in the tumult of Anfield, roaring and shaking with the ecstasy of impossibility.
If that sounds like an evolutionary impossibility, well, it doesn't violate the laws of physics, so we can achieve it.
She explores class conflict, the crushing expectations of masculine identity, the impossibility of getting out from under generations of pain.
They spoke to the essential impossibility of trying to limit creativity of any kind (intellectual, artistic or practical) by nationality.
Many victims live in fear of being recognized, thanks to the near impossibility of deleting these images from the internet.
There is arguably no greater gift than the gift of self-love, without which true happiness essentially becomes an impossibility.
This desire to move around on a single wheel is a desire for simplicity and impossibility at the same time.
"He recognized the impossibility of the situation," said George S. MacDonell, who served in the Royal Rifles during the battle.
And stories about the Promised Land, as this bold, compassionate, genre-hopping novel reminds us, have always traded in impossibility.
If formally challenged, the provisions could survive only with 60 votes, a near-impossibility in the partisan, narrowly divided Senate.
Mr. Santori said the movement did not want to become a political party, but suggested that wasn't an impossibility, either.
The impossibility of it all is accentuated by the barely readable mathematical formulae that are hand-drawn across the glass.
Negative rates, a reality for some time in Europe and Japan, no longer seems an impossibility to some market participants.
In a field this huge, that would be a practical impossibility, even if it were the right thing to do.
According to her, though, the question of "who's going to pay for it?" made it a political impossibility during her candidacy.
There's also been so much buildup that having a satisfying ending to it all was rapidly approaching the point of impossibility.
Building a Medicare-for-all system would be hard, but there is nothing about America that makes single-payer an impossibility.
Sam (Sean Berdy), a queer boy who is also deaf, gives a heart-wrenching speech on the overwhelming impossibility of love.
And so, prosecutors and McCullough's new attorneys agree, it would have been "a material impossibility" for McCullough to commit the crime.
I recently spoke to Ehrenreich over the phone about his new book and the increasing impossibility of nonviolent protest in Palestine.
With such a moving target, it's obvious that an ideal phone that has everything one could want is a practical impossibility.
Estefania's case is an uncommon one: For many women in Colombia, getting a safe and legal abortion is a complete impossibility.
So Trump likely won't be impeached unless the Democrats win both houses of Congress in the 2018 midterms—a near impossibility.
The difference is the framing: in every second you recognize the impossibility of Watney's odds, and how helplessly alone he is.
Some legal scholars celebrate the temporarily attenuated bench, hailing the impossibility of 5-4 rulings as a climate favourable to compromise.
In the secret diary he kept throughout the occupation, Jean Guéhenno describes the near impossibility of getting such a travel permit.
Democratic lawmakers favor work toward comprehensive immigration changes, seen as a near-impossibility to enact before 85003 (The Wall Street Journal).
Any action to replace him would require a suspension of the rules, approved by 60 percent of members — a virtual impossibility.
Both suffered under the weight of their elders' intellectual expectations, combined with the impossibility of fitting in as boys among men.
Still, Weber said his main takeaway was the near impossibility of preventing biological weapons from killing an astonishing number of people.
All three are now gone, two of them grumbling to various degrees about the impossibility of shining in Mr. Macron's orbit.
Plouffe is a guy who likes to make a plan and stick with it, and Trump makes that a near impossibility.
Obviously, the impossibility of having actual fresco projects in an exhibition that puts their existence at its center is a problem.
The elimination of year-round Pell has made even this obvious step in the right direction an impossibility for many students.
Morrison's life was not just the American dream; it was the supposedly inherent impossibility of the Black American dream made real.
President Trump and his base won't end their obsession with border security until there's not a single undocumented crosser — an impossibility.
A girl from one clan falls for a boy from another, the impossibility of their match leading to tragedy and transformation.
But that did not happen — the stations with overwhelming results for the official candidate were simply an anomaly, a statistical impossibility.
It's with those details that Krosoczka evokes a relatable yearning to understand everything about our parents, and the impossibility of that desire.
Yet until recently, buying anything on Instagram was a virtual impossibility because of the app's ban on links outside of user bios.
Even if you felt some speech was objectionable enough to silence, it was a practical impossibility to get rid of it all.
Popescu's thought experiment suggests that the impossibility of expressing spatial direction with information "may be related to the conservation law," he said.
He would have had to have been in two places 40 miles apart at the same time, a physical impossibility, he noted.
According to CNN estimates, Cruz would have to win every available delegate to reach 1,237 on the first ballot, a virtual impossibility.
"It's an impossibility to really identify anyone's DNA to be 'Mexican,'" genetic genealogist Blaine Bettinger of Baldwinsville, New York told BuzzFeed News.
What would have once been a political impossibility turned into a reality because of a proposition put on the ballot in 2010.
Now that the window has closed, reimposing sanctions will inevitably require winning over Democrats in the Senate to pass — a political impossibility.
These questions are a little facetious, but they underscore the impossibility of creating a truly level playing field between humans and computers.
The alternative would likely have required it to get ratification as a treaty by two-thirds of the Senate, a near impossibility.
Throw in additional factors like the impossibility of owning an idea and the phenomenon of cultural appropriation, and things get messy fast.
Maybe it's not fair to call out the knowing skepticism of the political thinkers who once declared Mr. Trump's nomination an impossibility.
The spirit of "Sure" stands in contrast to the culture of impossibility and the fear of failure that often undercut European enterprise.
Then came what had long seemed an impossibility in South Carolina: The Confederate flag was finally removed from the State House grounds.
Unfortunately for Jeremy, this also means that his genitals are on the wrong side, making the act of mating a physical impossibility.
"Even if it's a theoretical possibility, it may be a practical impossibility," said Andrew Michael, a California-based geophysicist at the USGS.
This illustrated the impossibility of "leading from behind" and prompted device makers to specialize rather than participate in a commodity hardware melee.
It was a glint of low-grade impossibility, like watching someone simply turn a handle and push open a double-locked door.
"I really wanted to focus on the impossibility of knowing what's on the other side of a binary life choice," she said.
In the final stretch of the film, the pain they've caused, and the impossibility of atoning for it, is made achingly clear.
But BoJack and Mad Men have something else in common, too: At their core, both shows are about the impossibility of happiness.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport expressed concern about these side effects, saying they could make compliance a "practical impossibility" for athletes.
Congregants told me they understand the need for the precautions but also lamented the impossibility of natural exchanges with the outside community.
This divisiveness, compounded with what they refer to as personal attacks, "made fundraising an impossibility" for PSSST, prompting their decision to close.
But in the current entertainment ecosystem, the good-faith B movie is not so much an endangered species as a genetic impossibility.
Daisy May now has a baby daughter with her husband, as well as a mortgage — the latter seemed an impossibility until recently.
In a county with the ability to vote for a straight-party ticket, one candidate's zero votes was a near statistical impossibility.
This inability to adapt to economic reality is a signal of the impossibility, in the United States, of pragmatic, sensible tax reform.
The office provided her scans of Ameen's sign-ins, narrowing the window of time to commit the murder to a logistical impossibility.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey wrote on his personal Twitter account that the result showed the "impossibility" of a federal Cyprus.
But the impossibility of going back to the golden age of Sprite commercials and Fresh Prince crops up every time Emmerich tries.
Until it [becomes] an impossibility, which would indicate they were dead, or in some sort of purgatory or not of the natural world.
"It's encouraging to see young writers and producers look at making their own show as a probability instead of an impossibility," Rothwell says.
So Lampedusa is this microcosm, this metaphor for what's happening right now, this mental space — the impossibility of these two worlds to encounter.
XG:  We allow for the cycles of the body to work through thresholds, which sometimes manifest as the sensation of exhaustion, or impossibility.
The neurological saying 'neurons that fire together, wire together' holds just as true with AI. Objectivity is an impossibility in any final way.
Really, the fuss over whether Get Out is a comedy just illustrates the impossibility of divvying up films by genre to begin with.
In Medieval Europe, it seemed that putting the power of the canon into our pockets was an impossibility—until the gun was created.
If the poem is the carriage, our conveyance toward and through death, it also signals the impossibility of emerging on the other side.
The impossibility of proving a negative is what breathes life into birtherism, and any of a hundred other conspiracy theories every day. 5.
But it might be about the near-impossibility of reconciling fidelity and lust, or potentially about his art and all-conquering competitive streak.
It is tempting to wallow in the impossibility of Shostako­vich's situation, and we should definitely empathize with the poor man, as Barnes has.
That means the price of renting or owning in a "good" district continues to rise, making economic integration an impossibility for many families.
A solution may be easy to verify once you have it, but computing the solution becomes exponentially harder to the point of impossibility.
At either end of the stage, two road signs proclaim the impossibility of accessing the road, yet, the possibility of getting around it.
"Passion," kept close to the eyes and ears, is overwhelmingly beautiful, filled with rhapsodic inquiries into the impossibility and ultimate necessity of love.
It turns out that Ramon's game, which he says is about "how we perceive impossibility," whatever that means, isn't exactly goal oriented, either.
Almost none of that covers the actual impossibility and hardship faced by the many millions of friends and family members who are caregivers.
With this groundwork, the first red-red-green coalition in German history could, eventually, move from a seeming impossibility into a realistic hope.
Instead, Lincoln's focus on the impossibility of capturing the human life lost moves us toward deeper mourning and lasting respect for those lives.
Now that Britain needs to negotiate the specific terms of its exit with Europe, the impossibility of a perfect solution is becoming clear.
The work only poses as a complete systematization of a culture; in fact, the impossibility of such a system is Darboven's whole point.
Citing "the impossibility of continuing into Venezuelan territory as planned," the vehicles returned to the Pacaraima area of Brazil, a news release said.
Then I was told to provide a credit card with up to a $4,000 credit line for her flight, an impossibility for me.
" But he also added the intriguing footnote that season two is about "the struggle to reclaim normalcy and maybe the impossibility of it.
Afghanistan could play an important part in China's plans, if it can overcome the deadly strife that makes doing business there a near impossibility.
Working from prison, Mr. Wagstaffe spent two decades piecing together records that showed the impossibility of the account given by detectives and the informer.
The result is an exhibition about lack or longing — a yearning for unity coupled with an acknowledgment of the impossibility of realizing it absolutely.
It's also a story about a mother who sets out to make the world safe for her son―and the tragedy of that impossibility.
" Back then, says Bezos, "The idea of going to the moon was so impossible that people actually used it as a metaphor for impossibility.
If sold at the previously rumored $18 billion mark, Twitter would be a big bite for Snap to swallow, but not a complete impossibility.
Sitting in limbo The near impossibility of getting a waiver has led desperate visa applicants to think creatively about how to press their cases.
Climate change has freed the strait of much of the ice that would have made the massive ship's journey an impossibility in the past.
Day to day, it set her teeth on edge, made her an impossibility even to herself: why she started fixing in the first place.
You're hungry, you're parched, you're terrified of the outside world, and the prospect of moving off of your bean bag is a true impossibility.
And so even if this theorem points to the impossibility of a truly rational democracy, it doesn't mean that the alternatives are any better.
In addition to physical barriers, long lines at polling places make waiting to cast a vote an impossibility for many people with limited mobility.
Beyond Brussels and Strasbourg, though, people have come to view a crisis with a constant sense of hopelessness and the impossibility of effective reform.
At times, it seems to be an argument against autobiography, as well as a lament about the impossibility of actually communicating with an audience.
As it turned out, wiring China was a physical and economic impossibility: social and technological realities stood in stark opposition to large-scale needs.
The simplicity of her desire ("I wanna walk through the park in the dark") becomes trenchant when, immediately, she points out its apparent impossibility.
There is much public talk about consumer product fatigue, the need for instant satisfaction and the impossibility of being genuinely creative every six weeks.
To be a Jewish dyke, let alone one who deigns to support Israel, is a categorical impossibility, oppressor and oppressed in the same person.
"The report, which became and remains a cornerstone of the Holocaust-denial movement, claimed that gas chambers were a scientific impossibility," Professor Lipstadt said.
And it struck me that this — a sudden and opposite problem after months of drought — illustrated the impossibility of simply "adapting" to climate change.
"The proximate cause for my departure was, in fact, the impossibility of our getting corporate insurance with me still at the helm," he explained.
The challenge in putting her onstage today is to make palpable both the purity of Guinevere's intention and the impossibility of her double love.
As the Trump administration progresses, some of his promises will be broken, either because of their impossibility or because he'll have changed his mind.
According to new research, it would be difficult to the point of impossibility—meaning that some aliens may be perpetually trapped on their home worlds.
It took September 43 to teach me that many would find my identity an impossibility, that my Iranian and American sides represented incompatibility at best.
"Defendant's involvement in Maria's disappearance and murder is a physical impossibility unless every witness statement gathered from family and neighbors is completely wrong," Schmack concluded.
"I'm really in love with the bulls and I'm really in love with the culture, so it's almost an impossibility I would stop," he explains.
And the notion of shielding them from this world, from even the last 48 hours, is an impossibility -- because chances are they already know it.
"It is a manifest impossibility" for McCullough to have been in Sycamore when Ridulph disappeared and also make a phone call in Rockford, Schmack said.
If you'd polled 100 pundits beforehand I'd be willing to bet 100 of them would have told you that such a thing was an impossibility.
Obviously religion was against it, and school also didn't acknowledge it—other than one embarrassing sex ed lesson about how anal sex was an impossibility.
The members balked at the idea, and, in Don't Break Down, which was filmed largely in 2006 and 19953, it still seemed like an impossibility.
Critics have often pointed out that some of Trump's plans are shortsighted at best, and focus on the improbability or impossibility of carrying them out.
In 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , he showed that trying to erase our memories of love and loss is a delirious impossibility.
Getting a bill "hotlined" would require the consent of every senator, which could be a political impossibility on an issue as divisive as immigration. Sen.
It is curious now that the very same community is telling Kanye to in effect "shut up and rap" (a physical impossibility by the way).
But they both know that a happy ending is an impossibility and that the world in which they live will not let them stay together.
Mr. Finkielkraut, for all of his warnings about the difficulty — if not impossibility — of assimilating France's approximately four million Muslims, is not advocating their expulsion.
One of Game of Thrones' obsessions concerns the impossibility of just leadership, because we are all limited by our human passions, intelligence, and blind spots.
Several venue owners and promoters spoke passionately and emotionally about what they described as the seeming impossibility of sustaining a venue legally in the city.
Mr. Bondy's "Tosca" was unsuccessful because it was messily conceptualized and gratuitously sordid, not because a gritty, dark take on this work is an impossibility.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to nationalize the Trans Mountain pipeline, to spur oil and gas development, shows that this needle-threading is an impossibility.
For Erica Vladimer, the former staffer who had accused Mr. Klein, the endorsement was more evidence of the impossibility of change amid Albany's political webs.
And despite what was just said about the impossibility of routine miracles, the standard of the average — the frequency of the exceptional — is surprisingly high.
A doom doo-wop band should be an impossibility: Doom is a plodding, earthbound style of metal while doo-wop harmonies are lighter than air.
The two have a tense, polite, maddening exchange, wherein she meditates on the impossibility of justice and also helps him pick out a hostess gift.
If it makes another $650 million—not an impossibility by any stretch—it will be the sixth Disney film this year to gross $1 billion.
The world wishes that there were better alternatives, but I'm sad to predict that the conflicting agendas and longstanding enemies make peace a virtual impossibility.
Having another baby was a biological impossibility for me by then, so we took the advice of the friends and therapists and got a dog.
"Remember: lack of tax details is not due to laziness/incompetence - it reflects impossibility of a GOP plan that matches Trump rhetoric," Jacob Leibenluft tweeted.
A key argument proposed by the researchers is that the prevention of contamination is a "near impossibility," as the authors phrase it in the study.
One researcher was asked by Zanco for a list of exactly which documents he wished to study—an impossibility, since there is no public inventory.
"Negative interest rates no longer seem like an impossibility to investors," said Covenant Review's Ian Walker, the firm's head of US middle market lending research.
With a philosophical title — "The Impossibility of Being a Sculpture" — the Parcours roster of artists includes Camille Henrot, Dan Graham, Laurent Grasso and Caitlin Keogh.
While experts agree the former is an impossibility -- given alligators' mobility and the vast acreage of water on Disney property -- the latter poses an interesting argument.
Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone.
It's not an outright impossibility that the man was murdered during the ritual, as some kind of offering, but the first two scenarios seem more likely.
The near impossibility of satisfying the requirements probably explains why there aren't that many mining deals actually being done, despite the low prices for many commodities.
Kevin Kalinich of Aon, an insurance-broker, points to the near-impossibility of drawing a line, for example, between cyber-war or cyberterrorism and "normal" hacking.
Artists like Simeon Solomon could not exhibit works like "The Bride, Bridegroom and Sad Love" (1865), a tender drawing that suggests the impossibility of gay love.
Two other justices found the search lawful in a concurring opinion that nonetheless deemed consent while unconscious a "metaphysical impossibility," reasoning that consent was not required.
And it would explain why vampires and werewolves, which should rank low on the list, what with the impossibility of radical metamorphosis, generally rank quite high.
He would have to win the great majority of the remaining pledged delegates to overcome her lead, an impossibility given the Democrats' proportional allocation of delegates.
After having achieved what the naysayers and many Beltway insiders admitted was the impossible, they quickly pivoted to the impossibility of moving the ball forward legislatively.
Yet without Giggs's immense, boulder-rolling labour in the preceding decade, as the "first UK gangbanger stepping on red carpet", it would have remained an impossibility.
Secondly, and perhaps as a result of its seeming-impossibility, I've always viewed the conception of self-love as a fluffy indulgence, ultimately unnecessary to survival.
In both cases, the film's thesis seems to be that our lives have gotten so thoroughly re-wired that occupying the middle ground is an impossibility.
The couple laughs at their own audacity when we discuss the enormity — and impossibility — of their undertaking: to explore what it means to be in love.
Over the course of the day, the fundamental impossibility of what we as a society are trying to do became abundantly clear in my little microcosm.
Making sense of this famous relationship has been complicated for historians, and Quinn concedes the impossibility of knowing what, exactly, happened between the two women physically.
While it is a linear time impossibility that our future destinies are performing for us today, the message behind the theme I think has deep resonance.
" Imagine, he said, "the impossibility of controlling secrets, when those secrets are encoded in the genomes of the bacteria in our guts or on our skins.
ATLANTA — Danielle Deadwyler dreamed of being an actress, but in 2008 when she was a teaching assistant at a charter school, it seemed like an impossibility.
Fourth-placed New Zealand will be the last team in the semis unless Pakistan beat Bangladesh on Friday by at least 316 runs - a near impossibility.
But here, too, viewers are immersed in an experience that challenges their abilities to interpret language and makes the impossibility of a singular narrative abundantly clear.
Other sensors, such as Argo, are too big to fit in the launch tube, and must be pushed out of an open tailgate—an impossibility during hurricanes.
For many women who live in rural areas, taking time off work to drive hours to their nearest clinic for each appointment could seem like an impossibility.
The ubiquity of cyber-attacks, and the seeming impossibility of preventing them, is persuading big companies to turn to an old remedy for such unavoidable risks: insurance.
Given the way that Android ROMs work, it's a near-impossibility for even big companies to build ROMs that don't include some kind of third-party code.
For all its flaws, Roseanne had been an attempt to put some "middle ground" on TV. With her blatant bigotry, its namesake star made that an impossibility.
Back in late 1991 and early 1992, AIDS was the sole political issue on LGBT activists' minds — the idea of same-sex marriage felt like an impossibility.
But despite their visible chemistry — lyrically captured in lingering glances, comfortable silences, and quiet smiles — they never get physically intimate, having internalized the impossibility of their union.
The Potterheads at Bustle were quick to shut this speculation down, but we've got our own ideas to as to how this crazy thinking is an impossibility.
Win: Amy Place: Cartel Land Show: The Look of Silence Should win: Silence is a harrowing look at the impossibility of justice, or even a sincere apology.
But the main thing I've seen first-hand is disarray, and the near impossibility of containment, recovery, and cleanup of petroleum once it enters this marine environment.
A life well lived features both a pizza body and being somebody, but if Youngblood's near-despondent delivery is any indication, having both is a near impossibility.
Photo/Politics/Austria may be an exhibition of visual history, but it's also a cautionary tale about the impossibility of putting the genie back into the bottle.
She opened up about motherhood and the impossibility of work-life balance Monday at a luncheon honoring small business owners as part of National Small Business Week.
Tenants have reported having their hot water and power turned off or being threatened with the impossibility of finding future housing with an eviction on their record.
The spycraft is interesting in its own right, but the show is much more about marriage and parenthood, and the impossibility of knowing who anyone really is.
For that, you can thank the impossibility of creating one-size-fits-all sets for the world's leading opera houses, muddled administrative leadership and a strained friendship.
He believed his son's deafness would make a sport that required communication with teammates an impossibility, so he focused on individual sports like golf, archery and shooting.
"It just was an impossibility" for many people to provide the documentation, Ossai Miazad, a partner at Outten & Golden representing the plaintiffs, said in a telephone interview.
Dr. Anand's observations about the impossibility of maintaining a sustainable advantage over competitors simply by being "better" — whether in content creation or product quality — are well placed.
Sadly this will never happen, because everybody knows that rounding people up at the end of a pregames and getting them into taxis is a literal impossibility.
So quiet that all of you can only think about how quiet it's gone, and that's making being not-quiet seem like an impossibility. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
The poem is caught in the trap of trying to be a more ethical cage, before finally coming to grips with the impossibility of coming to grips.
Perhaps, instead of considering the possibility of separating the art from the artist, it's instructive to think of the impossibility of separating the artist from his industry.
The impossibility of pinning down the boundaries of this art experience is exactly what makes Meow Wolf an exciting and challenging philosophical question for an art critic.
Both artists have found success in spite of behavior that has landed them in legal trouble, alienated many, and made an uncomplicated embrace of them an impossibility.
It forces you to accept the impossibility of perfection and encourages you to find delight in the unknown, since you can't see what it is you're creating.
Ultimately, these texts convey the impossibility of using a Western art historical framework to understand the complex situations particular to each country in Central and Eastern Europe.
But the alternative cannot be to just accept the impossibility to govern the migration flux and hand to the human smugglers the keys to the European democracies.
In the gallery, Harris locked his gaze on his mother, whom he hadn't seen in 14 months, her long face dazed with the impossibility of her task.
The impossibility of fully predicting how the military might decide in another crisis, along with growing unrest that could again test it, has left the government nervous.
In an age when widespread unity is a political impossibility, fear of being polarizing isn't just out of touch—it could be an act of self-sabotage.
" Sergey asked with a degree of puzzlement that suggested that either the city was very far away or there was some existential impossibility of getting there. "Now.
"Nothing could have better illustrated the impossibility, the unjustness, and the structural scarcity—for all concerned—baked into the heart of the private nuclear household," she said.
The current mindsets of major companies like Amazon, Tesla, and Google, alongside a general anti-union mentality in the United States, make organizing seem like an impossibility.
As if to reinforce the impossibility of such synergies, last fall the Trump administration released a peculiar report arguing that "socialism" had negatively affected Nordic living standards.
The proposal, which was never made formally, has been rejected as an impossibility by officials at Planned Parenthood, which receives about $500 million annually in federal funding.
But the party would need 60 votes -- virtually an impossibility given the map of Senate seats up for election next year -- to win a filibuster-proof majority.
After more than a decade in the bar industry, Tyler has put his foot down and made aimless texting and browsing a physical impossibility in his establishment.
Wednesday's demonstration included a notable number of elderly people who have been particularly impacted by the near impossibility of obtaining even basic medications within the wider crisis.
Gruen's big idea was to recreate the city square but with a roof on top, a crucial advancement in Minnesota where winter temperatures make outdoor shopping an impossibility.
But some political "facts" are eroded by time and events: the unelectability of the Tories, the Liberal Democrats' post-coalition doom, the impossibility of a vote for Brexit.
Alternatively, this sort of news might lead some people to throw up their hands at the impossibility of living a truly vegan diet, and so to give up.
Prince's deadly dose of the powerful painkiller Fentanyl was NOT prescribed by a doctor, which means it's a near impossibility anyone will ever be charged with his murder.
Paruresis is the difficulty or impossibility of using a toilet or urinal anywhere there are other people around, or where the sufferer believes there are other people around.
For me, it comes from seeing the visual impossibility of a 2D comic book and the live-action realness of a movie meet for one brief, fleeting moment.
That uncertainty comes from the impossibility of devising a policy that satisfies both Labour's metropolitan Remain voters and its working-class Leavers in northern England and the Midlands.
From their muscular bodies to their masterful gun skills, there's an air of impossibility surrounding these men — a feeling like they are the best America has to offer.
Indeed, his staff was begging Canter to shut down online ordering, but given that online delivery orders had become a third of Canters business, that was an impossibility.
This is one of those fundamental things that a lot of the Twitter Snark brigade was missing — this was essentially an impossibility for players up until this point.
Second—and as later wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq have attested—America has been slow to accept "the near-impossibility of resolving somebody else's civil war".
" Carrasco said he and his colleagues laugh about the sheer impossibility of Trump's proposal to build a wall: "I've worked out there in South Texas and it's difficult.
Writer David Frum noted those and other potential obstacles in a 413 piece for The Atlantic entitled "The Impossibility of Reparations," which was a counterpoint to Coates' essay.
In a motion obtained by PEOPLE, Harris' legal team argued that prejudicial testimony "made it an absolute impossibility" for the 36-year-old to receive a fair trial.
But other countries like the US and UK say such legislation would be impractical, because of the impossibility of defining what does and does not constitute human control.
Court documents, which were reviewed by Reuters, indicated that she had been served with the court-hearing notice a day before the notice was even issued - an impossibility.
Equally, there is a push in Congress to demand a stringent inspection regime while retaining a clear-eyed understanding of the near-impossibility of implementing such a regime.
In these 26 years, the virtual impossibility for states to collect the taxes they are lawfully owed has ballooned into a nearly $34 billion annual – and growing – problem.
The beauty of this reasoning is that it spares the judge the headache of determining who is right on the tax point, probably an impossibility for a judge.
I also knew that it was the baked-in distance and the impossibility of a date that had allowed me to fall so deeply in the first place.
Then you want to look like those things and when you realise it's a physical impossibility, you start to think, 'What the f**k is wrong with me?
But he also says hacking into a significant number of voting machines is far from an impossibility, and raises concerns about the security of those machines going forward.
She tells her stories in Ms. Grokhovsky's absorbing video, "The Future Is Bright," (2018) which screens opposite a sculpture whose explosiveness suggests the impossibility of encapsulating a life.
But the more I think about returning to my "normal" life, the more it occurs to me that the normalcy we're all imagining has already become an impossibility.
There are the appeal and impossibility of assimilation, the all-consuming force of motherhood and the secret lives of teenagers and their parents, each unknowable to the other.
By doubling down on the core gag — middle-age actors playing horny kids coming of age — it made the impossibility of recapturing the past part of the joke.
It is so contrary that while a U.S.-Vietnam friendship was always a possibility, a U.S.-Iran friendship is an absolute impossibility, absent one major modification: regime change.
While impeaching the President only requires a majority vote in the House, removal requires a two-thirds majority (85033 votes or more) in the Senate – an absolute impossibility.
They can try to rewrite it in a way that can secure 50 Republican votes, a seeming impossibility at this point, given the complaints by the defecting senators.
However, medical professionals have voiced concerns about banning the practice, arguing that it could essentially legitimize something that is a medical impossibility, according to the New York Times.
There is no real beauty without compassion; art humanizes the shock and transforms trauma as you realize the impossibility to not-share your psychic, mental and physical space.
But this time, the idea of censuring the president is seen as a near-impossibility in the Republican Party, and it's gained little steam among House Democrats. Rep.
It's fitting, really: He's an absurdist obsessed with the impossibility of human connection — but through his movies, he's connected with real human experience by remaining powerfully, defiantly absurd.
"The results presented here clearly show us again the de facto impossibility to clone the mammoth by current [nuclear transfer] technology," Yamagata and his colleagues admitted in the study.
To be removed from the list, an individual has to go two years without contact—a near impossibility if officers are being compelled to make constant contact with them.
Baker's films are obsessed with the quotidian aspects of making a living in America: the hustle and the pride, the impossibility of escape and the moments of humanity within.
Though the film was met with irritation from Wallace's biggest fans, it's actually a surprisingly moving portrayal of depression and the impossibility of ever capturing another person in words.
Aside from the fact that "Wind Sculpture (SG) I" itself is also about sculpture and it's also very beautiful to look at, it's about the impossibility of sculpting wind.
When I met Darius, I was stunned by how much time I wanted with him, and also by the impossibility of living my social life as I had before.
Eleven years ago the Met showed Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (1991), which contains a 13-foot tiger shark in formaldehyde.
Koenig focused on the possibility of Syed's innocence, but the more compelling story became the host's obsession with the case and the impossibility of ever really knowing the truth.
To be clear, terraforming is not necessarily an impossibility, but the timeframes and technologies required preclude the possibility of sustaining large, vibrant colonies on Mars for the foreseeable future.
One candidate who wants to "bomb the hell out of ISIS," a logistical impossibility given the civilian situation, and has talked of sending 30,000 troops into Iraq and Syria.
It never ran for a variety of dull reasons, but I suspect the main one was the near-impossibility of writing about that album without lapsing into grimy cliché.
Of the other humans we know, nice guy William seems like an impossibility, but Logan could possibly be some spoiled scion sent by a rich parent as a representative.
Since Sir Thomas More coined the term in his 1516 book Utopia, this Western vision of an ideal city has more often than not been shadowed by its impossibility.
In reality, the paper concluded that while staying within 1.5°C "is not yet a geophysical impossibility", it will still require much more political will and faster mitigation efforts.
I look for the lady I spoke to at the beginning, but she is busy at a computer that simulates the impossibility of expressing yourself completely to someone else.
In 1952, more than four hundred years after those plans were written off as a lovely impossibility, Leonardo's letter to Sultan Bayezid was discovered in the Ottoman State Archives.
Bingham — a former Newsweek correspondent and the author of "Class Action" and "Women on the Hill" — interviewed over 100 people, many of whom speak eloquently about possibility and impossibility.
A true "Internet Murder Revenge Fantasy" could never be, but it is this impossibility which keeps us coming back, creating, self-fashioning, and searching for an identity that lasts.
It's our thing: despite the impossibility of the separation that the carceral state imposes between us, everyday we're pleasantly surprised by the capability of music to sustain our connection.
"The impossibility of fixing it brought me to the brink of a 'breakdown,' so identified was I with that instrument," she said in an interview with NPR last year.
Lots of moms, and some dads, wrote me to say that they could relate to the impossibility of trying to give your all both at work and at home.
"I have fallen so deeply and acutely in love with my daughter that the idea of loving anybody or anything as much seems like a surefire impossibility," she admitted.
"Under this regime, a runaway Special Counsel is an impossibility," the prosecutors write, referring to current laws that regulate the office of a special counsel in the Justice Department.
The impossibility of conversations in such settings — the necessity of light, of a human face — was something I had resigned myself to, much like the frequent disharmony of speech.
When the impossibility of attaining even a fraction of what he what he wanted (like, say, being an extra) dawned on Wiseau, he undertook to make it for himself.
Even as they call for the refugees' return — which is an impossibility in the near term — those countries are nursing their economic and political relationships with the Myanmar government.
Born out of fear of German domination, the euro is, arguably, the only major achievement of a project that was supposed to make another French-German war an impossibility.
Ruth Levitas, a luminary in the academic field of utopian studies, writes defensively about "the elision between perfection and impossibility" employed by critics who dismiss the practicality of utopias.
Those who believe the story of the United States is an inexorable march toward a better future see the rolling back of rights as a foreign idea, an impossibility.
In Haynes's hands, Dark Waters has gravitas and the ability to infuriate its audience with the near-impossibility of confronting an industry giant on behalf of the ordinary man.
Making the mere mention of us in the C.D.C. budget process an impossibility is just one more attempt at creating a world in which our lives can be effaced.
Seasons are, by definition, collections of moments; discerning which one is the one on which everything hinged, which one is more important than all the others, is an impossibility.
The magistrate judge was patient and kind and seemed to recognize the dignity of those before him as well as the impossibility of accepting so many pleas at once.
No, both series are about the impossibility of those inside of a marriage to understand each other and those outside of it to understand the couple as a unit.
A U.N. Security Council resolution to refer the matter to the ICC is a virtual impossibility because Russia, which has a veto on the council, is sure to block this.
As with Laurence Sterne's novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", and Mr Winterbottom's adaptation, the documentary deals with the the impossibility of fully capturing a complex life.
But his latest escape plan is as simple as it is difficult: in a cultural context that makes genuinely spontaneous creativity nearly impossible, Howey makes that impossibility itself his subject.
Susun's voice was warm and effusive when she picked up my call; I felt like she was speaking to me from another dimension in which discomfort was a logical impossibility.
I felt like I could see in the environments Vostok had created the shape of the game they were trying to create, and the utter impossibility of their ever finishing.
Our much larger population and the complexity of our ballots may make the adoption of the Chilean system, with its many transparent boxes and publicly read votes, an impossibility here.
First, for so long, it was obvious that his wall would be an impossibility because it was so ill-fated, badly thought out, and based on outright lies and untruths.
However, "in view of the impossibility of distinguishing between the originals and the adulterated ones," health authorities have told people to avoid consuming or selling all products with those labels.
We've hit 1 degree already, and unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut by half in the next 12 years -- an economic and political impossibility -- passing 1.5C is a virtual certainty.
Or, simply, the impossibility of delivering more liberal, representative societies to a region where political Islam invokes not the power of the people but the all-pervasive authority of God?
For much of the film, the camera lingers close to the floor, pointed up, as if to emphasize the close confines of the prison space and the impossibility of escape.
Often detailing prison violence in graphic detail, his explanations of the surrounding circumstances highlight the absurdity and what most would consider the impossibility of serving time in United States prisons.
It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic, a seeming impossibility that is now technologically within reach: cities floating in international waters — independent, self-sustaining nation-states at sea.
The email told the employee that they would be not be penalized for their decision or face disciplinary action for attendance based on health or impossibility to come to work.
If you think it sounds like a mathematical impossibility for a company to lose more than 100% of its workers every year, you've never worked in the fast-food industry.
I nodded along as she wrote of the impossibility of balancing parenthood with professional ambition; I shuddered as she lamented her financial instability and lack of a plan for retirement.
So while a catch limit can and should be enforced in the commercial fishery given that every fish is weighed at the dock — it's an impossibility in the recreational sector.
Nielsen's demise is the clearest indication yet of the impossibility of reconciling Trump's ideological and emotional instincts on immigration -- which helped make him President -- with legal, humanitarian and international realities.
There's a twisted irony inherent in composing a "Twin Peaks in the age of Trump" essay that explicitly celebrates the impossibility of a "Twin Peaks in the age of Trump" essay.
These brands existed in a realm of impossibility for me, garments I would admire in the glossy pages of Vogue or stroke admiringly in department stores when no one was looking.
This description characterizes participation on the show as a rarified opportunity for love—a golden ticket out of the dregs of Tinder and, you know, impossibility meeting someone in real life.
Previously, Structuralist concepts of totality led French Post-Structuralists to formulate the impossibility of maintaining total transcendent meanings, and this trend has carried over into the outstanding work of Gilles Deleuze.
It's a masterpiece — lyrical, haunting, surprisingly empathetic — and reminds the reader of the impossibility of answers, or at least, the inability of answers to provide a grieving mind with real peace.
This was all an impossibility when I was on the space station, but then you build it and all of a sudden people like, hey you can do this, and this!
This is about the time pundit flacks begin invoking the shibboleth of "transparency," an impossibility given that the landscape has degenerated into warring fiefdoms that resemble "Game of Thrones," dragons included.
On the contrary, he empathises with their rage at the human condition, and what he sees as the near-impossibility of love between a man and a woman working out well.
But while there's no denying that 15 years of existence is a remarkable achievement for any franchise, the facts of this particular case reach even beyond that, bordering on utter impossibility.
The logical impossibility of explaining that position was on full display Thursday when White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took questions from reporters for the first time in three weeks.
Richard Childress Racing driver Daniel Hemric, currently second in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings, said locking onto the bumper of the car ahead of him was a near impossibility.
Regulations issued before mid-May will not be subject to the Congressional Review Act and Republicans would have to have 60 votes in the Senate to overturn them (a virtual impossibility).
And there was a bill in Ohio that required the removal and replacement of an ectopic pregnancy (when a fertilized egg attaches itself outside the uterus), which is a medical impossibility.
The other is that the key premise of Trump's campaign was that all the wonky kvetching about the impossibility of his absurd border wall was just excuse-making by feckless politicians.
But with the SDF turning its attention to the border clash with Turkey, SDF leaders have acknowledged the impossibility of guarding the prisons at the same time with so few resources.
Some industry insiders say the prince's lengthy experience has overcome what has always been seen as the impossibility of appointing a royal to the post of energy minister in Saudi Arabia.
More specifically, it captures the impossibility of finding your power as a woman in a social system that insists on placing more value in you as property than as a person.
At the same time, the comfort of the bigger dining room and the table service, an impossibility in the first space, have encouraged me to branch out beyond my usual favorites.
Beginning in October, Republicans would need Democratic votes in order to pass a repeal bill, a seeming impossibility given that Democratic senators have been unified in opposition to the repeal push.
But under closer scrutiny, it can be seen as an elaboration of the artist's ongoing thesis about art, technology and the impossibility of separating either from a specific moment in time.
Part of that, he said, is the impossibility of a deeply substantive debate among 10 people, which is how many were onstage for each of the June, July and September debates.
" Researchers from Google and Microsoft said in 2013 that companies would always struggle to justify an investment in a game-time ad, citing what they called the "Super Bowl Impossibility Theorem.
Modern aviation seemed out of reach two centuries ago, and going to the Moon was also an impossibility until the math, the technology, and the thinking was able to catch up.
If your Android phone is experiencing glitches that make using it a frustration or even an impossibility, a factory reset might fix the issue and restore your phone to proper function.
But for people who are still using crystals to alter their chakras, Kadlec claims you need to see and feel the energy from the object—an impossibility with my puny otoconia.
She found that they were preempted under the doctrine of "impossibility preemption": GSK is bound by state laws, but it is ultimately required to defer to the FDA on drug labeling.
Her candor awes me as much as her ice cream dinner after the years I spent hiding purges and the utter impossibility of my quest, which I hid most from myself.
But probably the most obvious way that Venezuela's economic crisis is impacting the way people are dealing with Zika in their everyday lives is the near impossibility of finding chemical repellent.
To effectively control the mosquito vector using current tools, every house and office in the city must be visited on a weekly basis, a near impossibility without the help of the community.
There's a focus on the impossibility of class mobility, on the opioid addiction epidemic, on illegal immigration, and on the dark horrors happening right under the noses of rural America's privileged few.
"It is a mathematical impossibility to extract distances to objects from one single image, if the object has not been encountered before," said Delft's Guido de Croon in an ESA news release.
Given the impossibility of defending an area as big as Mosul, Mr Knights expects IS fighters to fall back to a couple of places where they can sell their lives most dearly.
Justifying its decision to ask for administration, Alitalia's board cited the airline's serious economic plight, the unwillingness of its investors to refinance the company and the impossibility of finding a quick alternative.
And it was a space we could easily transform into a depopulated dystopia, a post-apocalyptic world, perhaps a clean state, after the end of history (an impossibility, but a seductive idea).
They may not be able to seek help at another time, because they may find the whole process of seeking care too costly either emotionally or financially, or even a physical impossibility.
Self-confidence cannot be imported, even from a well-meaning partner, but American officials can point out the near-impossibility that the U.S. can defend Japan from China or Russia by itself.
But the problem isn't in the courts but in Congress, where gun control is regarded as a political impossibility thanks to the outsized influence of the gun lobby on the Republican Party.
I hadn't considered that possible association here, and—while I don't feel that I'm diminishing the gravity of such things—it has highlighted the impossibility of perfectly pitching a stunt like this.
Fears involving cost, time or impossibility created a strong resistance to design changes at first, but solutions such as adjustable seats proved that innovations are only limited by a lack of vision.
This would have forced some low-income voters to travel several miles to vote—an impossibility for many, including folks who couldn't spare so much time away from their jobs or families.
But maybe we're doing ourselves a disservice by working so hard to move past what sexism has done to us, what the impossibility and inevitability of living a dehumanized life feels like.
This is partly because, unlike Rich, Wallace-Wells sees the impossibility of casting this story as a tragedy or any other kind of familiar drama focused on only a few powerful individuals.
I don't much like Kickstarter projects these days – too much overpraise – but this looks to be just under the realm of impossibility and the company has already raised $150,000 for the product.
"Identifying the oldest known embryo is simply an impossibility," said Dr. Zaher Merhi, director of IVF research and development at New Hope Fertility Center, which is not involved to the Gibson case.
This is why stealth games are many and spy games are few: Fundamentally, espionage fiction is about the blending of truth and lie, the inevitability of suspicion against the impossibility of certainty.
But given that impossibility, the companies use an imperfect proxy: people alive today who have a deep family tree in a particular geographic area, and sometimes a paper trail to prove it.
Where 2017's It found terror in the everyday tragedies of childhood — grief, illness, bullies, parental neglect or abuse — the sequel gets its emotional pull from the impossibility of outrunning the past.
The group hired fire experts to testify to the impossibility of the government's thesis; it contradicted facts asserted by the government; and it asserted that suspects in the case had been tortured.
The fact that Muslims make up 1 percent of the U.S. population and that such an agenda is both a statistical and a Constitutional impossibility has done nothing to temper this fear.
But on the divided Korean Peninsula, where the two countries remain technically at war and don't even let their citizens exchange letters, going home across the sealed border is a near impossibility.
The much higher threshold is removing him, which requires 20 of 85033 Republican senators, assuming all 47 Democratic-aligned senators (including two independents) remain unified — a near-impossibility regardless of new revelations.
Because most plastic enters the sea from rivers, efforts to entrain plastic should focus not on the impossibility of collecting it from mid-ocean, but at its most concentrated points: rivers themselves.
" Film directors have sometimes struggled when they've turned to opera, daunted by its inflexibility of tempo, the impossibility of postproduction editing and the challenges of large choruses, including in "The Pearl Fishers.
The sheer impossibility of measuring up has left a generation of girls with the enduring belief that, no matter how many achievements they rack up, they are not enough as they are.
At the time, the joke seemed like another way for the show to slip in some exposition about the "Watchmen" universe, but it underscores the impossibility of achieving justice without serious consequences.
Action-packed plotting propels this rabidly contemporary novel forward, as it examines the movement of people across the shifting geopolitical landscape, the impossibility of returning and the potential redemptive power of poetry.
I hazard to say that even subcultural queers who weren't plagued by the substance abuse issues I contended with mostly viewed kids as a potential drag on their liberties, or simply an impossibility.
He never married, and though many papers relating to his intimate relationships were burned, Ms Uglow describes his pain at realising that the great love of his life, Frank Lushington, was an impossibility.
On May 4, the CME declared force majeure due to load-out impossibility at a majority of the exchange-approved regular facilities on the Illinois River due to high water levels and flooding.
To those familiar with the property, its arrival on streaming is the realization of a longstanding dream, a seeming impossibility after years of licensing entanglements kept the Japanese cartoon off shelves and streaming.
The fact that it is impossible to think who that savior might be or what that savior would say to unify the party should tell us something about the impossibility of that savior.
And since it was a financial impossibility to finish my bachelor's degree while incarcerated, I decided becoming fluent in Spanish was in fact the most beneficial thing I could do with my time.
These last things are interestingly like dragons and also interestingly unlike dragons, in ways that suggest that we may be wise, after all, to treat impossibility as something other than an absolute condition.
"Many experts," his campaign insisted, had called it a "mathematical impossibility" for the Warriors to reach the N.B.A. finals after falling behind by three games to one in a best-of-seven series.
Fitzgerald's books also offer, however, plenty of cautionary tales about the effects of wealth, the way that a nominally thrilling marriage can stagnate into something toxic, and the impossibility of recapturing the past.
But in a play that examines the vicious abuses of power that people commit when they think nobody's watching, the timeless impossibility of Isabella's position could hardly be more sympathetic, or more central.
If all of that sounds like an impossibility, like it could only occur in some bizarro universe where celebrity presidents don't exist and Earth is actually the temperature it should be, it's not.
Two photographs of Dread Scott's performance "On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide" (2014) are presented in close proximity to the exhibition's display of anti-lynching material.
These concerns include the potential inability of athletes to remain within permitted limits even with hormonal treatment and the "practical impossibility" of compliance some athletes may face because of the treatment's side effects.
They are meant to be worshiped, to be desired — a desire that draws all its strength from the impossibility of reading or reproducing them: Theirs is the fetishization of the singular, the uninterpretable.
People were still out, jostling with each other in narrow lanes and still crowding into bus shelters, sleeping eight to a room in shabby tenements, and showing the impossibility of maintaining social distance.
People were still out, jostling with each other in narrow lanes and still crowding into bus shelters, sleeping eight to a room in shabby tenements, and showing the impossibility of maintaining social distance.
Further, the Chiefs have already erased first-half deficits of 24-0 and 10-0 this postseason, so it's not an impossibility that they'd come back despite an early outburst from the 49ers.
Gone are the cinematic speed and the air of invincibility—all that glorious impossibility—replaced by all-too-human fragility and a heightened sense of the waning of skills and the passing of time.
"We should eliminate leap seconds because of the real-world practical impossibility of reliably implementing them, due to either their inherent nature or to general lack of knowledge of their very existence," he said.
In March, Oppenheim and his former student, Lluis Masanes, published a paper deriving the third law of thermodynamics—a historically confusing statement about the impossibility of reaching absolute-zero temperature—using quantum information theory.
Thanks to the Underground, buses, taxis, shared bikes and the gift of upright bipedal motion (to say nothing of the impossibility of street parking) it has always seemed more trouble than it is worth.
Second episode "Dress To Impress" furthers the impossibility here by giving us our first comprehensive look at Andrea, who is obviously meant to play the irritating liberal elitist to the Conners' folksy, brash charms.
I do appreciate your characterisation of the position of the Organisation of American States, which clearly explained the irregularities and deficiencies of the electoral process and therefore the impossibility of establishing a clear winner.
"In the near term that's almost an impossibility that it would shift, but over the medium term you'll actually see more manufacturing in the U.S. as a result of a concerted effort," Ives said.
The predictable "Will this be a quiet week for Trump?" posts were written (by me, among others), despite the fact that we had eleven weeks of evidence suggesting such a thing is an impossibility.
Even when the overleveraged airline became tight on cash, Trump would not be swayed, instead urging Nobles to reduce the pilots per plane from three to two -- an impossibility for the airline's Boeing 727s.
And the difficulty in getting to the more remote locations, and the apparent impossibility of traveling between them, would make a much higher total virtually impossible without, say, a car and a driver. 3.
In our case, it's the chill and the pleasure in recognizing the impossibility and the inevitability of living with undefined memory: We want the cat alive or dead, but the cat refuses to oblige.
The executive director of the state party, Dallas Woodhouse, declined to discuss the organization's plans in detail on Friday, but he argued that it was a "mathematical impossibility" for the outcome to be changed.
Signature acquisitions, such as Damien Hirst's 22010 shark-in-formaldehyde sculpture, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," and Tracey Emin's 237 installation, "My Bed," were later sold for millions.
And here's where the impossibility of this team comes to bear: On any given night, when Curry is shimmying and shooting and Thompson is his metronomic shooting self, Durant is the team's third option.
Hence, a paradox: By making a full peace treaty a condition for progress on the ground, the impossibility of reaching a full peace treaty guarantees that there will never be progress on the ground.
But even after they beat the Miami Marlins, 5-4, in 11 innings, their chances of making the playoffs remained a near impossibility because the Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Nationals each won on Tuesday.
And that was really fun — it felt like a four-year conversation among a lot of really smart and funny people about what's the best way to just approach the impossibility of being alive.
From Eugene O'Neill to August Wilson, "Fiddler on the Roof" to "In the Heights," the newcomer's drama is usually one of distress and deracination, and, most of all, the impossibility of ever going home.
Mr. McConnell, though, quickly put such topics off limits, saying that any changes in those programs would have to be done on a bipartisan basis — an impossibility given the Democratic refusal to go along.
But Assassin's Creed Origins is about the impossibility of going back to sleep once you've truly comprehended the depths of the avarice, cruelty, and manipulation unleashed by elites on the everyday people of the world.
The child orgy scene is fun to joke about, given its absurdity and the impossibility of its inclusion in any adaptation, but it is also so, so much more nauseating than I could have imagined.
Since so many chemicals pollute our larger environment, not just our foods, even if you avoid all packaged and processed foods (a near impossibility), you're still exposed to these chemicals in our environment every day.
He also lamented that Apple, which announced lower earnings than expected this week, won't simply relocate all of its production to the US, despite labor cost factors that make that a virtual impossibility at present.
Enacted with an ardent discipline that renders agitated frustration with muscular precision, "Confirmation" is an investigative essay on the possibility — or impossibility — of overcoming the fixed mind-sets with which we all perceive the world.
It also casts a sharp light on the great difficulty -- the near impossibility -- of identifying and preventing racial discrimination in jury selection in the absence of some revelation that leaves no doubt about the matter.
JIM CRAMER: Tim there's a curious really strange disconnect between what I read and hear on Wall Street about Apple and this because it is going to be an impossibility to pry this from me.
This year it is devoted to "African Perspectives," which, as co-curators Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba explained during this morning's press conference, acknowledges the impossibility of defining or conveying an entire continent's visual production.
As noted earlier, the obvious reason going green doesn't work—even though I still think it's a good disciplinary policy for humans—is the sheer impossibility of getting the developed world to stop… well, developing.
From the inevitability of death, you move to contemplating the impossibility of knowing when death might occur, and then to meditating on spiritual awareness as the only thing that can potentially "help you" through death.
It's a point made by Vox's German Lopez, who spoke to several hate crime law experts earlier this year on the near impossibility of gauging criminals' motivation — or proving them in a court of law.
She's trafficked in fragmentation for a long time: Her career as a scholar of ancient works, which are often fragmentary or have no definite author, required becoming intimate with the incomplete, the impossibility of completion.
While Raising Kratos is fundamentally a behind-the-scenes look at game development, the movie also implicitly acknowledges the impossibility of telling such a story without holding the humans behind it up to a microscope.
Cyber-currency futures will stumble, though, given the impossibility of forecasting with any degree of confidence the future price of bitcoin, much less any cyber currency, with the possible exception of ICOs funding real businesses.
Reaching a full-blown international accord by the May 12 deadline is seen as an impossibility by some U.S. and European officials even if there was agreement on the underlying issues, which there is not.
Paying off the kind of large loan that many millennials have had to take on to finance their educations would be challenging in normal circumstances, but with flat wages it can be a near impossibility.
"I got a letter from the bank lawyers saying I had 12 hours to come up with A$2.4 million ($1.8 million), and that was an impossibility to do on that notice," Fox told Reuters.
" Jacobsen, Wood writes later, is "perhaps more acute, and more explicit, than any other novelist I have read about the difficulty of annulling God, about the impossibility of expelling God, from the grammar of thought.
Amongst the ornaments were a pin of the Dalai Lama placed next to a police patch, another code seemingly impossible to decipher, but then again, the impossibility of meaning seems to be Koh's favorite artifice.
Many short stories touch on the kind of themes that would sound profound to an adolescent — the inherent loneliness of the human condition, the impossibility of real communication, or conversely fleeting moments of unexpected connection.
"The thing I fear the most is that the Palestinians will grow so desperate about the impossibility of two states that they ask for one state," Odeh said as we talked politics in the car.
Cockroach wings are the preferred medium of artist Fabian Peña — they comprise, among other works, "The Impossibility of Storage for the Soul I (Self-Portrait)," in which a human skull is covered with the insect parts.
That's now become something of a political impossibility given that multiple Trump campaign aides are in the crosshairs of federal investigations looking for signs of collusion with Russia in the run-up to the November vote.
In 1922 he published "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis", in which he demonstrated the impossibility of socialism as an economic and social system and described how it leads to the destruction of the social fabric.
"It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces," the freshman lawmaker known as AOC said during a House of Representatives committee meeting, according to a Public Citizen video she retweeted.
But to my mind, "...Baby One More Time" speaks as keenly about the loneliness of love as any other artifact of our culture: it's not about losing someone but the impossibility of ever really having them.
"The currency war goes back to 2010…Everybody wants a weaker currency but it's a mathematical impossibility, you cannot all devalue against each other in the same time, so you have to take turns," Rickards said.
By the time a common food among all the people who are ill has been traced to a particular kitchen, whatever ingredient that was getting people sick is most likely gone, making simple testing an impossibility.
Voting has been the subject of intense mathematical research since 1950, when the economist Kenneth Arrow published his famous "impossibility theorem," one of the two major contributions for which he was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize.
After countering the first two ideas with points about varying interpretations of religion and the impossibility of writing "laws forcing people to have a good family life", Noah moves on to the"not enough guns" solution.
There's just one problem: the coins that rekxahxfb plans to give away were transferred into their wallet three years ago, making it an impossibility that they came from the Bitfinex hack, which happened earlier this week.
As Mashable has reported, it's a near legal impossibility, but if they do manage to kick him to the curb, the internet has helpfully provided some suggestions about who and what could take up the mantle.
" She said the extra-wide, hard-to-take-in-at-one-glance format also appeals to her: "There's something about the impossibility of seeing things whole — and the pleasures of only seeing things in your mind.
But at least they were playing instead of complaining, even if it had to be under a leaden sky that made spotting the Eiffel Tower from the upper reaches of the Philippe Chatrier Court an impossibility.
Journalists and commentators are analyzing his policy pronouncements and temperament with an eye toward what it would all look like in the Oval Office — something so many of them viewed as an impossibility for so long.
As such, this production is probably the company's most straightforward ode to theater's limits and infinite potential, its frustrations and consolations, and the impossibility of ever shaking off the past or ignoring the present in art.
The Eurointelligence think-tank said the end of the easy-to-use vouchers showed the impossibility of reforming hidebound Italy, which has regularly underperformed other eurozone economies since the launch of the single currency in 1999.
The other path, to continue to deny Trump's legitimacy, to decry him as an outsider hell-bent on destroying the republic, grants him that same aura of impossibility that helped him so much during the campaign.
This is not the Mueller investigation, and it is not obstruction of justice inquiry in which the Trump legal team can assert some theory of executive power impossibility for obstruction crimes grounded in his official acts.
It ignored facts both material and suggestive, including the impossibility of creating enough heat at an outdoor dump to completely incinerate so many bodies or any indications that governmental complicity went higher than the municipal level.
Her boss, a conservative Christian who holds that biological sex is "an immutable God-given gift", felt he could not condone what he considered a physical impossibility by allowing Ms Stephens to wear frocks to work.
And understandable Palestinian frustration over the near impossibility of obtaining building permits in Area C does not inexorably lead to the conclusion that ratcheting up the tension with Israel in Area C will solve this issue.
I'd gone there to study writing, and I was still reeling at the impossibility of it — still feeling myself an imposter, astonished that someone like me could even begin to think of herself as a writer.
Trekkies at different poles of the look-taste-feel matrix push on each other, and rather than despair at the impossibility of conjuring a definitive gagh into existence, Trekkies seem to revel in this diversity of form.
Nova, played with a calm, measured intensity by Wesley, appears to be the most grounded of the siblings, but her activism and ancestral traditions run counter to the impossibility of being the mistress of a white man.
A watch is supposed to be an heirloom and the only way to encourage multiple purchases is to price them at far lower than a traditional watch – a near impossibility – or make them last a lot longer.
As such, the process of climbing is challenging to the point of impossibility; the game's unerring physics engine punishes any deviation or mistake with a tumble that could potentially take you all the way down the mountain.
They are each different in many ways, not least in their attention to class or race, but they are all narratives about the difficulty or impossibility of love between men who just happen to desire other men.
Of course, the two sides use it very differently: To left-wing Israelis and most international leaders, it's a warning that the decades-long idea of a "two state" solution to the dispute is becoming an impossibility.
But possibility and impossibility are binary, and when we adjudge the yeti more probable than the leprechaun we aren't reflecting facts about the world we live in; we aren't reflecting the world we live in at all.
On Wednesday, he tweeted that Pelosi is such a political goldmine in the eyes of some in the Republican Party, his congressional allies might try to vote for her to be Speaker (an impossibility under the rules).
Since we first pointed out the "safe and effective" impossibility in the Wall Street Journal last year, the FDA in January 85033 ceded the regulation of mosquitoes[J1] to the EPA, which has authority to regulate insecticides.
Before 2008, I'd begun to wonder whether watching a woman campaign for president as a major party nominee – and be on a general election ballot – had, for me, become a virtual impossibility similar to a moon landing.
Once you learn that the Kostelnicka is being sung at the Met by the galvanic Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, her victory over the rock — indeed, the near-impossibility of looking at anything onstage except her — is unsurprising.
The statement also blamed the party's lackluster result on a "great disadvantage caused by the impossibility to run for its leader, Silvio Berlusconi," who is barred from office as a result of a previous tax fraud conviction.
If you haven't seen the lawyer Gloria Allred on television — a distinct impossibility — she now appears on movie screens in "Seeing Allred," a documentary that's remarkably engaging despite treating its rough-and-tumble hero with kid gloves.
But, where my queerness hadn't made us closer, my transition — the sheer impossibility of changing gender — eventually tore a hole in our shared reality, one through which we could talk about the ways we'd both been broken.
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, jail inmates have a median income of about $218,222 prior to their incarceration, and the impossibility of paying sky-high phone rates often results in being disconnected from family and friends.
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, jail inmates have a median income of about $15,000 prior to their incarceration, and the impossibility of paying sky-high phone rates often results in being disconnected from family and friends.
"Most women would want to have weddings that all of their friends and family would see and remember, but I'm sure [Carolyn] understood the impossibility of doing that," Peggy Cafritz, a Washington socialite, told PEOPLE following the nuptials.
Clinton's chief rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, for injecting the issue of income inequality into the races in both parties the paper hesitated over the near-impossibility Mr. Sanders would face in getting his sweeping programs through Congress. Mrs.
This research shows that, even if the night sky represents a physical impossibility, dung beetles are still able to maintain their bearings—but only if the stars, or cues, are still visible when the snapshot was initially taken.
Worst production decision: JC: I don't know how they could've done it beyond actually filming at some kind of race track (an impossibility given the constraints on the production), but the big race at Thunder Road fell flat.
Sure, I realize the impossibility of this given the limitations of time travel and also the fact that if you warned yourself you might not end up learning all the knowledge you'd end up putting in the letter.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a medical term for a cultural problem: the basic impossibility of digesting the experience of combat as an isolated individual among other isolated individuals, each devoted to pursuing his or her private interests.
The ruling also underscores the judiciary's wariness of entangling itself in political fights between the executive and legislative branches, with judges preferring that the two bodies resolve the fights among themselves — a near impossibility in this political climate.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads GERMANTOWN, New York — In his article "Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting" (Art News, March 21), Philip Guston wrote: He is so remote from other masters; without their "completeness" of personality.
Ripert recalls hiding pre-made rabbit terrines in the refrigerator lest Robuchon reject one as it went over the pass and insist he make another on the spot (an impossibility, since the terrine took six hours to prepare).
It's a scientific impossibility that the 170 plus governments that have signed the Paris Agreement, which pledged to keep climate change to under 2 degrees Celsius by 19083, will meet that goal, unless animal product consumption goes down.
The email told one employee (who spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity) that they would be not be penalized for their decision or face disciplinary action for attendance based on health or impossibility to come to work.
While the news may seem sobering for celiac sufferers, staying gluten-free while dining out isn't an impossibility; after all, a full 68 percent of the tested dishes that were advertised as safe turned out to be fine.
But the spectacle was somehow sadder for its subtlety, which underscored the bind that even the most cautious and conscientious administration official is in, the impossibility of finding some honorable balance of principle and obeisance, prudence and deference.
Just a little after 7 PM on Tuesday night, the event that just a year ago seemed like a ridiculous impossibility finally happened: Donald Trump became the official, nothing-they-can-do-about-it-now Republican presidential nominee.
Beuys is one of those artists that's hard to understand without any background information, and although Shin's exhibition is tightly curated with its focus on the impossibility of language, it lacks any information for those unfamiliar with Beuys.
LC: With the organization We Make America, you wanted the general public to understand the complexity of the immigrant system, the impossibility of being documented as an undocumented person, and the possibilities for art to address these subjects.
In June 1913, the entente cordiale between Britain and France was described as "the expression of tendencies which are slowly but surely making war between the civilised communities of the world an impossibility" ("Neighbours and friends", June 28th 35.33).
Kathlyn M. Cooney, an Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art & Architecture at the University of California Los Angeles, says it's too early to speculate about the true nature of the void, but a hidden chamber is not an impossibility.
Hirst has actually killed thousands of butterflies for an exhibition at the Tate Modern and had a tiger shark fished from Australian waters to create his infamous "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (2100).
The only wiggle room around this medical impossibility is a newly-available type of screening called cell-free fetal DNA testing, which uses an expectant mother's blood test to analyze fetal DNA that has naturally leaked into her sample.
Jane is better known as the customer service rep who in 2016 wrote an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman detailing the impossibility of surviving in the Bay Area on a net salary of about $366 a week.
The 22-year-old power forward/structural impossibility has had a fine campaign, neither building on nor falling off from last season's All-NBA numbers, but a player can thrill only so much from last place in his division.
Lyrically, "Sleep Well Beast," like much of the National's discography, dwells on the impossibility of human relations: how hard it is for two people to want the same thing, in the same way, for longer than just a moment.
The project was systematic at the same time that it revealed the impossibility of systematic accounts of human experience: The more detail Simon supplied, the more the observer became aware of how many more details could be piled on.
The first time I took Adderall, I was a sophomore at Brown University, lamenting to a friend the impossibility of my plight: a five-page paper due the next afternoon on a book I had only just begun reading.
The impossibility of the dichotomies imposed on the lives and bodies of women mean that all femmes—not just sex workers—can find ourselves punished by the state at some point in our lives, merely for being sexual beings.
Claus Oldenburg once proposed a war monument that would block all pedestrian and auto traffic at the corner of Broadway and Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, an impossibility that made for a profound critique on war monuments in general.
According to Axios, most of Trump's advisers are aware of the political impossibility of getting Congress to pass this bill, with the exception of trade adviser Peter Navarro, perhaps the most combative and uncompromising economic official in the administration.
He cited what he called a "statistical impossibility" of the results in some states — where turnout was high despite the fact that life there has been upended by war — as well as anomalies in states that are opposition strongholds.
"Our analysis suggests that 'pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C' is not chasing a geophysical impossibility, but is likely to require a significant strengthening of the NDCs at the first opportunity in 2020," the researchers write.
We all have rights under the Federal Constitution, if you look at the Bill of Rights, due process and so forth, the President is trying to be President, trying to defend himself is an impossibility, they point, among other reasons.
The implicit idea that a 500-pound writer is a comical impossibility, that fat people are hard to look at, that paying fat writers and thin writers the same amount is a practice worth congratulating — none of it is great.
"The side effects of hormonal treatment, experienced by individual athletes could, with further evidence, demonstrate the practical impossibility of compliance which could, in turn, lead to a different conclusion as to the proportionality of the DSD Regulations," the judges wrote.
The newest collection of Sarah Andersen's hilarious, relatable comics is filled with insight on protecting yourself from the scum of the internet, why morning people are the worst, the impossibility of cleanliness, and why cats and hot chocolate can fix anything.
To qualify for the Democratic debates at the end of the month, Steyer will have to receive donations from at least 65,000 unique donors and poll at 1% or higher in three qualifying polls in the next week — a virtual impossibility.
Andrea Mantegna's "Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome" (1505–19973) takes the competition further in painting red marble as a full-scale frieze background behind a procession of figures — in the real world a physical impossibility for this material.
Trump seemed to acknowledge Friday morning the impossibility of his surrogates keeping up with him: "As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!" he tweeted.
The impossibility of knowing where most of his references come from leaves us off the hook — we needn't know anything more than what we see in front of our eyes, since the link between inspiration and image has been unplugged.
That is, they argue forcefully against defining race or gender in terms of any objectively identifiable biological factors, even as they promote an extremely tendentious definition of race that simply takes for granted the impossibility of transitioning to another race.
It arrives not in 48-minute treatises but in flashes of impossibility—those moments when Durant wriggles away from the normal scrum of the game, gets in the air, and makes shapes that nobody else has ever been able to make.
The artist collective Guerrilla Girls' Racism and Sexism flyer questions the fetishization of minority artists, while Dread Scott's performance, On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide, highlights how artists continue to fight enduring inequality.
Estimates of the cost of reunification to South Korea range from around $500 billion to several trillion dollars, and putting even that specific a price on it is difficult, given the impossibility of guessing how the process would play out.
Some five thousand Europeans joined ISIS , and, of the thousand or more who have returned to their home countries, very few have been charged with crimes, owing to the near-impossibility of collecting court-level evidence in a foreign war zone.
" Van der Leun suggests that this is symbolic of the country as a whole, two decades after liberation: She describes her new home as increasingly unviable, repeatedly terming it an "impossibility," a place where "an undercurrent of aggression and tension . . .
Simon's project evokes 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings in its crisp attention to detail and in the impossibility of the bouquets it presents: flowers that bloom in different seasons, or that would never be found growing in the same terrain.
It's really a show about the power of radical empathy, but the impossibility of conveying that in less than 90 seconds meant that Sense8's trailer made it seem like a confusing action show with good-looking characters and nice sets.
Philippe Reines, who served as a senior adviser to Clinton at the State Department, tells Politico in an interview that he thinks it is "unlikely" that Clinton would mount a 2020 bid, but cautioned that it was not an impossibility.
The films have some themes in common — the awesome forces of nature, the impossibility of living with other people, the utter creepiness of birds — as well as some stylistic choices, like dead-on period details and near-incomprehensible old-timey dialect.
Brooding on the impossibility of the American dream, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's tense, creepy new opera, which came to the Miller Theater at Columbia University in September, shows the fracturing of a homestead family suffering on the brutal Nebraska plains.
"I want to take a look at the general idea that if somebody did something when they were 16 or 17, that doesn't become an entire impossibility — as long as it's not serious — to joining a police department," Mr. Emanuel said.
The sheer number of unknowns -- including whether McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer can reach agreement on the structure of a trial and what that agreement, if reached, would entail -- make any firm conclusions about what's coming next an impossibility.
In a recent New York magazine cover story, Tavi Gevinson reckoned with her own uncomfortable relationship with Instagram, which grew up alongside her, and her self-image as a brand — and the impossibility of fully untangling that brand from her art.
"In the 'old days,' committing to expensive, long-term leases for a young brand like ours would have been a huge burden, and likely an impossibility at this stage in our business," Ariane Gold, the founder of handbag company goldno.
Say you care; say that the gaping impossibility of being eco-friendly in a far-gone age hasn't crushed your brain into apathy; say you're in the market for some new [whatever] and ready to make the future-friendly choice.
Given that identity was not baked into the original internet protocols, and given the difficulty of managing a distributed database in the days before Bitcoin, this form of "self-sovereign" identity — as the parlance has it — was a practical impossibility.
But though the score line — the extent of the rout as much as the identity of the team that administered it — was eye-catching, the fact that it felt like an impossibility is, to an extent, a trick of the memory.
A person must also prove the impossibility of holding a job and a limitation in understanding, remembering or applying information; interacting with others; concentrating on, persisting in or completing tasks; or general life upkeep (paying bills, cooking, shopping, dressing, personal hygiene).
But AST is too caring and self-aware for that, and while there's no solution immediately proposed here, their artistry is not the center of interest — it's the impossibility of creating art that does not contend with Miami's environmental reality.
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And stuff like this relatively needless argument over a four-letter word, resulting in the underdogs being put in their place courtesy of the sheer financial impossibility of fighting their corner, inevitably absolutely sours expectations and opinions prior to properly playing the thing.
If an AI is to ever succeed in this realm, it'll have to identify these subtleties, and also keep up with changing social norms and cultural mores, which may be difficult given the rapid pace of social change, but not an impossibility.
Mike Bloomberg called trans women a 'man wearing a dress' and implied equality 'makes no sense' to Midwesterners'It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues everyone needs help to succeedThe Senate voted to acquit President Trump.
I didn't know then the impossibility of such a pursuit; that you don't get to choose how to be seen, or whether you'll be embraced or discarded — that neither the city, nor the mirage of reinvention, can ever really belong to you.
"The decision was made ... due to the impossibility of distributing a dividend as a result of the expected failure to meet the 'profit test' in the next two years," it said, adding this would not prevent dividend payouts from time to time.
Judge Furman vacated Secretary Ross' decision to ask about citizenship and enjoined the government from adding the question without meeting the strict standards of the APA – an impossibility, given that the Trump administration has said census forms must be finalized by this June.
They're about much more than data and geography — they're about about the attempt to reconcile your subjective, emotionally-tinted perception of the world with what's presented as fact; about the impossibility of understanding your place as an individual within vast, complex systems.
Of course, you may as well write a law requiring all animals to speak, or all stones to bleed: the very foundation of encrypted communication is the deliberate and transparent impossibility of a third party listening in, service providers and manufacturers included.
The show is about the impossibility of knowing what the "right" thing is, and about why it's so hard to be selfless, and how systems that try to rigidly enforce "good behavior" often end up being far more evil than less structured ideologies.
"This wishful gesture was the only way I could get myself a car—cold comfort for the current impossibility of my dream that I, as an independent person, can drive myself to work one day," states the artists about her performance piece.
This felt of a piece with those moments, and others like them, moments of appreciation for one another, for the ways magic can be conjured, for the impossibility of seeing men flying into one another at breakneck speed but keeping one another safe.
Comments by Trump's lead lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday on the question of whether Trump could pardon himself to end the investigation and on the impossibility of a President being indicted also suggest a brazen interpretation of the scope of presidential power.
On a note which some may find startling from a church known for its strict rules and unchanging ceremonies, the Council documents will also emphasise freedom as a precondition for real peace and reconciliation, and the impossibility of imposing beliefs by force.
He had some gripes, to be sure: including incessant operations (he has had "well over 60"), the impossibility of holding down a regular job because of his treatment and a terror of undoing years of painful therapy by slipping in the shower.
But even if Mr. Kasich wins Ohio and its 66 delegates, along with some of the others at stake on the same day in Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, his chances of gaining a majority of 1,237 is close to a mathematical impossibility.
It takes into account the historical, socioeconomic, and political status of Puerto Rico after the storm, such as our dependence on fossil fuels and the impossibility of economic development for an island whose political system is at a precipice due to corruption.
The 2013 episode, whose title references Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," is an engaging consideration of the monetary values applied to art, as well as whether or not art really is a good investment.
While we appreciate this step, it came too late, as we did not get a confirmation from the Department of Antiquities to use the Roman Theater, in addition to the impossibility of bringing back a concert this big in less than 24 hours.
And with many of the newly empowered House Democrats casting the entirety of Mr. Trump's border security efforts as an abomination, a compromise deal has become a third rail, if not an impossibility, in the coming year as election campaigning takes precedence.
Despite the mathematical impossibility of the Spanish flu killing at least 22002 million with a 204 percent fatality rate, this phantom statistic has drifted far and wide, materializing everywhere from blogs, Twitter, and The New York Times to the most prestigious medical journals.
Many of us groan about the evisceration of the city's industrial past while spending no shortage of time complaining about the impossibility of getting a reservation at the new waterfront place, in a converted warehouse, in Brooklyn, with the great vitello tonnato.
The alert noted that other factors, such as the "indiscriminate possession of firearms by the population" and the "impossibility of authorities to prevent these situations," were among some of the reasons travelers need to be particularly wary of highly populated areas or events.
It is, in other words, a minefield — if not an impossibility — for people who work irregular hours, can't afford child care, have disabilities or are in abusive relationships and do not want to express their political choices in front of their partner.
Second, McConnell also reiterated his view that finding the 67 votes to actually remove Trump from office is, at least at this point, a virtual impossibility -- something that would underscore the argument for not delaying what Republican senators view as an inevitable acquittal.
She notes that the statute of limitations for recouping stolen art expired in 1970; that it is incumbent on families who lost property to provide documentation (a near impossibility for many); and that laws and systems to encourage restitution are feeble at best.
So, now imagine this scenario, one strategists say is not an impossibility, given how close recent polls have shown the race to be: Mr. Sanders wins the raw vote total, Joe Biden wins the delegate count and Mr. Buttigieg wins the rural counties.
It compresses the entire life of a prominent academic into a series of interviews and recollections, and its real subject is unknowability, the impossibility of ever understanding someone completely — a theme that Lively says has more resonance with her as she gets older.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Rugby World Cup organisers were forced to call off matches for the first time in the tournament's 32-year history on Thursday - eliminating Italy as a result - saying the risk from Typhoon Hagibis made hosting them an impossibility on safety grounds.
When getting a big trade deal seemed an impossibility, the US and China started working on a "Phase One" deal that was more narrowly focused and which reportedly includes getting the Chinese to agree to a numerical amount of US agricultural purchases.
In 2017, a group of five cartoonists addressed these concerns on the Nib under the header "I'm Tired of Performing Trauma," pointing to the stubborn pervasiveness of systemic rape culture, the impossibility of being a perfect witness, and the anguish of remembering.
" Errol thought about a rant his father often delivered, about blacks and the many children of the poor and the impossibility of improving their circumstances through education: "We've been educating the sonsabitches for a hundred years and it has done no good whatsoever.
"Given the impossibility for me to contact and to converse with my client, I am prevented from assisting and defending Mrs Gulnara Karimova in a manner that is compatible with the guarantee of a fair trial," Gregoire Mangeat said in an emailed statement.
But even before all that, sitting in a silk-upholstered chair in front of a fireplace in his office, his State Department-seal cuff links peeking out from the sleeves of his navy blue suit, the impossibility of Tillerson's assignment was apparent.
Gary's craving for "multiplicity" and his refusal to accept its impossibility — to be stuck with our ho-hum human condition, that is — make him a literary figure worth revisiting, one of those striving, endlessly self-inventing individuals who streaked across the 20th century.
And the show's premise, about a young woman named Rebecca who ditches her high-powered job and moves across the country after a chance meeting with an old crush, offers the perfect fodder for its central concern: the utter impossibility of happiness.
To some people I'm sure inbox zero seems like a sheer impossibility, but I promise, if you take a few minutes (or hours depending on how drastic the email count is) and set your mind to clearing that inbox, it can be done.
As I've long argued, though, just as Apple shouldn't shy away from new product categories because they can't match the iPhone's scale, neither should any other player in the market be cowed by the impossibility of matching the smartphone's impact on the world.
The prospect of a 60-Democrat majority in the Senate in the near future seems like a near impossibility, meaning that if Democrats want to get ambitious legislation — such as Medicare-for-all — passed, they'll have to get rid of the Senate filibuster.
It does a good job of bringing some aspects of that strategy to life: the difficulty of the countryside, the way it resists the tools of modern warfare, and the impossibility of securing anything more than isolated pockets in a hostile land.
For instance, in his first chapter titled "How Art Can be Thought," (emphasis in original) he provides a definition of "art" from the dictionary and then discusses each and every word in the definition to illustrate the complexity and impossibility of defining art.
BUT if you don't acknowledge how your wealth made your workouts/body possible, you're just perpetuating the patriarchal (totally unrealistic) notion that mothers should 'bounce back' after childbirth, an impossibility for anyone who can't afford ample childcare (which is almost everyone in this country).
Airport officials say that Friday's incident could ignite a debate about the limits of traveling with firearms, as the shooting revealed a security vulnerability in transportation security policies, but also the near-impossibility of securing areas where the public is free to come and go.
When Oliver and Elio directly interact with each other, as in a memorable scene where they circle a fountain, much of their dialogue and action is about the dance of impossibility that also seems to afflict the characters in movies like Brokeback and Moonlight.
According to the CAS, the DSD regulations might present a "practical impossibility" for compliance, because the policy sets an upper limit on testosterone, and it is unclear how athletes could be continuously monitored, or even ensure that their bodies comply with the new rule.
Computer-generated creatures and digital alterations of images are so commonplace that watching a dragon fly through an arctic wasteland to incinerate a zombie army in Game of Thrones is more notable for its narrative importance than for the sheer thrilling impossibility of the image.
Simultaneously, we recognize the impossibility of reducing the complexity of real life to a simple checklist or rulebook and encourage conversation and dialogue with colleagues and supervisors about concrete situations as superior to trying to craft an ethics policy that would address every conceivable dilemma.
The opening track "Hands of Time," a twangy, orchestral shuffler over six minutes long, lays her hardships bare as she curses the impossibility of bringing things back to the way they were—before her father lost the family farm, before the death of her son.
Policy experts from conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute opposed it, as did a large group of conservative congressmen in the Freedom Caucus — not to mention the near-impossibility of anything with its structure passing through the Senate.
As I observed, painfully, during my second combat deployment to Afghanistan in 2010 to 2011, it is a virtual impossibility for U.S. troops to locate and identify who among the local population is an insurgent or terrorist and who is simply a law-abiding citizen.
Payments to bondholders, including those made by TMFNL pursuant to the guarantee, will be made through the National Settlement Depository (NSD), which exposes bondholders to a quite remote/extreme form of country risk, specifically the impossibility of the settlement being made in Russia through NSD.
Payments to bondholders, including those made by TMFNL pursuant to the guarantee, will be made through the National Settlement Depository (NSD), which exposes bondholders to a quite remote, extreme form of country risk, specifically the impossibility of the settlement being made in Russia through NSD.
Following a string of disappointing primary results -- and with more losses on the horizon in states like Florida and Arizona this Tuesday -- Sanders is facing the reality that it is becoming a near mathematical impossibility for him to receive enough delegates to secure the nomination.
And recognizing the impossibility of deporting the country's estimated 11 million unauthorized residents, he recommends amnesty — though only in exchange for "resolute enforcement" of immigration laws, backed up by mandatory "E-verify," a web system giving employers a way to confirm employees' legal status.
That five presidential candidates withdrew or were forced to withdraw from running against Mr. Sisi is a reminder of the impossibility of real politics in Egypt — with "elections" mere charades blessed by a military establishment that has suffocated Egyptian politics for more than 60 years.
On my stroll with him along the High Line a few days later, I brought up my co-worker's comment, believing this to be an opportunity to flash my charm while calming my nerves regarding the impossibility of him just being a nice guy.
But their stylistic finesse, a world away from the junkyard aesthetic of his early work, is also an implicit acknowledgment of the impossibility of turning back the clock, of deprogramming muscle memory to reintroduce awkwardness, uncertainty, or naiveté into the handling of the steel.
Born Coleen Mary McLouglin to working-class parents (her father was a bricklayer who ran a boxing club, and her mother was a cleaner) in Liverpool, the high-flying, mega rich life of a WAG may have seemed an impossibility to Coleen as a child.
She also told People magazine that her season is not likely to be "that different from any other season of 'The Bachelorette,'" an impossibility considering that, by virtue of being the first season with a black star, it is already completely different from any other.
Given the near impossibility of convicting the president, the Democratic strategy should be to present the case against him with such persuasiveness and clarity that those senators who ignore the abundant evidence will be exposed as being uninterested in the welfare of the nation.
I can't confirm this, but based on my decades of flying I believe it is a scientific impossibility for a baby to make it through an entire flight without wailing with the ferocity of someone who has slammed their fingers in an overhead bin.
But Mr. Spicer's performance — strident, defensive, stressed-out — carries a wealth of information: about Mr. Trump's image obsession, about what the president expects of his underlings, about the impossibility of contorting one's self into a human bridge between reality and Mr. Trump's agitated mindspace.
While President Donald Trump holds the White House and Republicans control the Senate, a Green New Deal is a near impossibility, but House progressives and Sunrise Movement activists say they are trying to lay the groundwork for drastic action against climate change in 2020.
Teams have shown that winning with just one great player is an impossibility in the N.B.A. The Pelicans will need Davis to continue to blossom but will also have to identify and acquire a second and probably third star if the team is to join the elite.
This seems like a near-impossibility from a system this compact – the next smallest gaming PC I've used is the Alienware Alpha, and that can't come close in terms of specs – but it consistently proves itself a very capable performer, regardless of what you throw at it.
The impossibility of long-term, semi-sexual friendships between men and women more or less sums up all 10 seasons of Friends, and yet queer people fill their movie nights and housewarmings with old hookups and Tinder dates who they may or may not sleep with again.
All this adds up to broader implications for women, Pavlicev and Wagner suggested: The low frequency of female orgasm -- only a quarter of all women reliably achieve orgasm during intercourse -- is not an individual woman's failing or a physical impossibility but a natural consequence of evolution.
The bursting bubble is an image of failed communication because it upholds the impossibility of incorporating difference: it's self-annihilation; it's the idea that different ways of thinking cannot exist except "outside"; it's that idea that belief systems must be nothing if not uniform, coherent, and elegant.
Many, if not most, Americans reeled in the wake of last November's election results, having written off a Trump presidency as merely a dark impossibility, and that feeling has only deepened in the intervening months, as his destructive cabinet and regressive policies have started taking shape.
As the delegates piled up for Biden on Tuesday night, CNN estimated that the former vice president would need to win 260% of the remaining delegates in order to win, while Sanders must win 280% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination -- a near mathematical impossibility.
Faced with the impossibility of depicting financial transactions, Woods and Galimberti fell back on four types of photos: clichéd metaphors; aggrandizing portraits; architectural documents; and poignant, prosaic photos of tax havens' coercive consequences on people — the inequality and exploitation rendered on the backs of the poor.
The allies, led by America, know full well that by giving billions in aid and selling billions more in weapons to our military, they are ensuring the military's continued political dominance — and in doing that, ensuring the near impossibility of our country coming up with any alternative.
On a little ledge, a tiny shark in an embalming tube is on display — Ferguson's cheeky riff on Damien Hirst's seminal work, "The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," but equally a reference to the "cabinet of curiosity" style of old-school sideshow culture.
Mr. Stewart, a former environment minister and prisons minister, is trying to blow up that policy, not by warning of the damage it would do, as a string of leaders have for the last three years, but by arguing that it is simply a practical impossibility.
Mr. Morley began by setting up his canvas at the Manhattan docks and trying to paint the ships, but found them too big to take in — "one end is over there, the other end is over there, a 360-degree impossibility," as he once put it.
Since we first pointed out the "safe and effective" impossibility in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last year, the FDA in January 85033 announced that it was ceding the regulation of mosquitoes to EPA, an agency which does have the statutory authority to regulate insecticides.
He would go back in time and kill his own grandfather—a logical impossibility, as we all know, he said, since killing his grandfather would mean that he himself wouldn't be born, which would mean that he couldn't go back in time to kill his grandfather.
It was this threat — and the impossibility of reasonable governance — that convinced John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE to resign in 2015.
But I do know how the song, with its ominous synth drone, teetering drums, and chirpy circus melody of a lead, made me feel: the grueling mixture of emotions that comes with the growing impossibility of distinguishing between a technological simulation of life and the real thing.
To further evoke the dead end-ness of these housing schemes, Ward has placed nearby a ladder filled with frozen cement, so there's no use for it, except as a symbol for the impossibility of getting a leg up on the higher rung of the socioeconomic ladder.
"There's no turning back the clock on relations with North Korea, not after the Kim Jong Nam incident and the near impossibility of having any positive relationship with the country under such severe sanctions," said Shahriman Lockman, a senior analyst with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies.
What made the scene between Nick and Luke work so well is that it feels fully both the impossibility of Nick's situation and the inadequacy of his response: It's not clear that he could be doing anything more than what he's doing, and what he's doing is not enough.
Yet when they first proposed their idea of releasing sterilized male screwworms into wild populations to cause their collapse, the entomologists, who received funding from the US Department of Agriculture, were met with ridicule from much of the scientific community, who decried the impossibility of "castrating" an insect.
Some directors, like Isaac Julien in Looking for Langston — a filmic meditation that situates Langston Hughes in a queer black world — more overtly combine the fictional, the artistic, and the biographical in an attempt to stage nonlinear connections and associations even as they acknowledge the impossibility of knowing.
The social media websites must maintain a copy of the illegal material, expunge all other copies from the site, and prevent them from being re-uploaded (a near impossibility, considering the speed and scope of the internet), and explain the reasons for any action, or inaction, to the complainant.
Maybe it was because I was in a brand spanking new Airbus A350 and knew that crashing was all but a statistical impossibility and, were we somehow to go down, I'd be dead on impact or found within a few hours, presuming Russia wasn't what (allegedly) grounded us.
Although the bill still has to make it through the Republican-led Senate and past the President's desk — a near-impossibility, at least in its current form — the House vote sets the stage for a final victory if Democrats win back the Senate and White House in 22020.
Over time, though, my interest in the site began to wane—after scanning my friends' profiles one too many times, I felt the thwarted enthusiasm of a voracious reader walking into a library and realizing the impossibility of reading even a handful of shelves, let alone the entire collection.
Ostensibly, the MAP program seeks to expand the museum's holdings of non-Western contemporary art; simultaneously, it reveals the impossibility of disentangling any collecting project by a Western institution from a long history of instrumentalizing the museum as a tool of colonialism that bolsters the acquiring nation's ideologies.
This is an aspiration fueled by talk of Polish plumbers pressing down wages, would-be terrorists crossing porous borders and the maddening impossibility of buying a flat in an era in which sons and daughters of London must compete with the offspring of Russian oligarchs and Saudi royalty.
Despite the ambiguities in the rules, providers who cannot comply with it may have to shut their doors, and those that are able to remain open fear that the additional costs will be passed onto their patients, making safe and legal abortion a financial impossibility for low-income women.
The impossibility of picking between art and life, of making sense of a world where reason ceases to shape reality, ensnares an entire nation, for which betrayal and violence as well as the "cut glass of pragmatism" seem at once the only choices and the most inhumane ones.
The tactic bucked expectation — namely, that actresses tie their public personas to their relationships with men — and gave these pioneering activists exposure that's hard to come by, but it also revealed the impossibility of dismantling an event bent on promoting a certain kind of femininity and luxury at once.
Officials reportedly spent an inordinate amount of time printing color-coded charts that touted their fictive victories and statistics, which left out both the ballooning cost of the war and the impossibility of imposing a modern state on a tribal society unused to centralized government, the Post said.
Márquez told The Atlantic in 1973 that "surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America": I don't want to undersell this point, so: I just don't know that KRZ works as a whole if it isn't able to visually communicate the breadth, chaos, and seeming-impossibility of everyday life.
"At most, the letter indicates that it is possible that the FDA could have rejected the label change after receiving the various data and information it requested from GSK, but as the Supreme Court has reiterated, the 'possibility of impossibility (is) not enough,'" the 3rd Circuit said, quoting Merck.
Several groups filed suit against DHS last June based on the lack of notice of the one year filing deadline given to asylum seekers and also the impossibility of filing because the immigration courts are so backlogged that an applicant often cannot file in open court within a year.
She remains at her best in intricate bits like one sending up the impossibility of a woman "having it all": She runs down a litany of unrealistic expectations for women before juxtaposing it with the simplicity of male ambition, which involves a sandwich and part of the garage.
So not only was the piece itself (which has since been painted over) a direct nose-thumbing to British surveillance culture, but the process by which the work was installed drew attention to the impossibility of Big Brother ever being able to fully surveil and curtail a determined proletariat.
Indeed, we rely on referential descriptors when trying to communicate our pain: it feels as if … Part of what Heyman's paintings accomplish is to point to the instability of language and the sign, and how easily communication is confounded, whether intentionally or through the very impossibility of conveyance.
While acknowledging that moderates currently have no appetite for it, I have rehearsed the arguments for such a move on this blog before: not least the obvious fact that with every month Mr Corbyn is leader, the task of one day undoing the damage he has caused spirals farther towards impossibility.
"That's a Hobson's choice for any company, they either get some revenue, but way below market, or they get no revenue and spend all their time and money trying to take down all the tens of thousands of illegal copies that are on YouTube, which is a near impossibility," says Sherman.
"Hamilton" is really two phenomena: an extraordinary piece of theater, created by the composer, rapper and actor Lin-­Manuel Miranda, and a commercial behemoth powered in part by scarcity — the near impossibility of obtaining tickets, which sell out as quickly as new dates go on sale (through January 203, for now).
If you start with the recognition that institutions serve and protect themselves, that the option of aligning yourself with whoever is already in power isn't open to you, then you can understand both how nearly impossible your position is and how nonviable it would be to simply accept its impossibility.
Although unlikely, the PIO could be terminated under certain conditions that are beyond VWFS AG's control, including the impossibility of payments and settlements in Russia, nationalisation of VWBR, war or revolution, and circumstances under which none of the internationally recognised rating agencies assigns a credit rating to the Russian Federation.
He's recently learned that Forster was a closeted gay man, who found the impossibility of writing truthfully about his desires so crippling that he stopped publishing novels in his forties, suppressing his one explicitly gay-themed book, "Maurice," until after his death, in 1970, at the age of ninety-one.
During the latest outbreak, researchers for the F.D.A. and the C.D.C. warned consumers, including institutional purchasers like schools and restaurants, not to buy romaine unless they were certain that it did not come from Yuma — a near impossibility, because individual bags of lettuce are almost never readily sourced and tracked.
You would either have to either replicate the exact conditions under which it occurs, right down to the smallest units of social measurement (an obvious impossibility), or understand the properties of the zeitgeist with the same nuance that one would canvas after, say, nearly four decades of painting (and teaching it).
" Still, for the most part, G.O.P. officials looked the other way or offered one-off condemnations of Mr. King as his flirtation with nationalist figures like Geert Wilders of the Netherlands deepened and he made increasingly incendiary remarks about, for example, the impossibility of sustaining "civilization with somebody else's babies.
"Highlights from 100 years of expert solicitude confirm the dirty little secret of child rearing: Though parenting gurus preach the supreme importance of consistency, their own shifting wisdom is proof of its impossibility," Ann Hulbert, the author of "Raising America" (2003), a sweeping history of child-rearing advice, wrote in this magazine.
The underlying subject of this scene, with its repeated punch line about a husband who's a "cheetah," seems to be the impossibility of marriage — a theme picked up next in the kitchen, where Paula (Lindsay Rico) is sharing with Sue (Ronete Levenson) the results of her calculations on the duration of love.
So, Never Trumpers, if you want Clinton to finish the job of the nationalization of the healthcare system, keep bashing Trump, but don't come back in 2017 trying to set the conservative position against HillaryCare when you accepted that outcome through your general election activities, making it a virtual impossibility to stop.
In a written document prepared before the hearing and seen by Reuters, his lawyers argued that the extradition request should be rejected because of a lack of evidence, the "abusive origins" of the case, the impossibility of a fair trial in India and detention conditions there being incompatible with British human rights laws.

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