[ adv ] to a degree impossible of achievement <adv.all> long thought to be an impossibly difficult operationimpossibly far from sources of supply
Impossibly \Im*pos"si*bly\, adv. Not possibly. --Sir. T. North.
The slowness in setting occupational carcinogen standards will prompt bans or impossibly stringent standards.
"These were impossibly complex strategies that had never been tested in the market," says Herbert Sandler, co-chairman of Golden West Financial Corp.
Juliet Booth's painfully frumpy Helena, John Graham-Hall's impossibly gangling Lysander, and Peter Rose's irrepressible Bottom must be mentioned, together with Emil Wolk's virtuoso, menacing Puck.
It is true that the Silk Route had variants, but it is also true that every road in central Asia turns out to be ex-Silk Route if you let the tour guide pause for breath. The origin of this impossibly exotic camel track is well-documented.
Magaly and David are impossibly nice and well-adjusted, considering what they've been through.
The horrific accounts are illustrated by artists' reconstructions in which all the Americans are blond, with impossibly long, hooked noses and evil grins.
And if the Indian troops were to withdraw from the north while Sinhalese extremists remained active in the south, the Sri Lankan armed forces would be drawn impossibly thin to deal with both uprisings.
Said two years ago that the government's promise of 'pain first, pleasure later (as a result of ERM entry) appears impossibly optimistic'.
One turn at a time you thread your way down, a tiny speck of humanity in an impossibly huge landscape. The scenery was so overwhelming that at one stage.
The upshot: Many companies find it impossibly expensive to maintain expatriate employees in Sweden.
Confronted with the impossibly of dealing with such complexity, the public turned its rage against the otherwise minor pay increase. They directed their anger at the visible targets, using them as symbols of the unknown whole.