[ adj ] impossible to achieve <adj.all> an unattainable goal
Hu Quing, a 27-year-old postdoctoral fellow in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, says the kind of experience he's getting would be unattainable in China.
"We don't see that it's unrealistic or unattainable," Becky Timmons, vice president of the committee, said of the spending blueprint.
After several years of night school while continuing to work, he graduated and reached his goal _ an example Freeman cites of goals that are not unattainable, but have to be accomplished step by step.
The Hubble Space Telescope will give us an appreciation heretofore unattainable of the origins and limits of the physical universe.
In reality, scientific proof of safety is already unattainable and it is in the face of this that we propose the implementation of a precautionary approach.
"We don't see that it's unrealistic or unattainable," said Becky Timmons, vice president of the committee.
Few outside analysts here would call that goal unattainable.
Mr. Banks's terrain is a landscape of limited horizons where even modest goals are unattainable.