The Commission must pull off a near-impossible mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Imperial Arrogance] Reference

Police in the Eastern Cape face a near-impossible task on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It wasn't meant to motivate the squad to a near-impossible victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dunk That Made History] Reference

It's near-impossible to stay anonymous as the Times reviewer these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Sifton Is Your Next Food Critic of The New York Times] Reference

This, of course, puts you folks in a near-impossible situation, I grant you.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Surrenders?] Reference

But it's near-impossible to get a job or health insurance if you are over 50.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: Too Old For A Job, Too Young For Medicare Or Social Security] Reference

How's that for a near-impossible feat for a semester-long undergraduate course?.    From Wordnik.com.  [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference

Minister Chris Liebenberg faces a near-impossible task trying to please everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's near-impossible to be a proper art-for-arts'-sake artist in 21st Century America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Simmons: Beating Off the Squares] Reference

Timing a market is near-impossible, so getting out risks missing the inevitable upturn.    From Wordnik.com.  [What to Do to Survive This Market] Reference

I'm just having a near-impossible time trusting your bosses with what they're asking for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jake Brewer: GM Goes Grassroots. A Son is Torn.] Reference

Preventing poaching on the hundreds of streams of the Volga delta is a near-impossible task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bye, Beluga. Later, Sevruga.] Reference

The grace with which Gordon-Levitt executes this near-impossible act is utterly mesmerising.    From Wordnik.com.  [From 3rd Rock's floppy-haired alien to Leonardo DiCaprio's gravity-defying assistant in Inception] Reference

RAMAN: Well, there are two schools of thought, those that see this as a near-impossible task.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2005] Reference

McCain has frequently taken on near-impossible missions that go against the grain of his party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

Most Olympic anchors have discovered that Jim McKay's legacy looms as a near-impossible standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Gumbel's Marathon] Reference

I have an enormous amount of respect for the way she has handled this near-impossible balancing act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rory Kennedy: Two Fine Choices, One Clear Decision - Obama] Reference

The value of art is near-impossible to ascribe on a global level, since art is related individually.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Bloggers Should Be Paid More, Part I: Blogging is Tough] Reference

It took nearly a full day, but Irwin finally came back with a solution to the near-impossible riddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunch at Michael's with Advertising's Most Powerful Person: GroupM's Irwin Gotlieb.] Reference

It is, I will say, a near-impossible task to corner an agile ten-year-old boy in a large, crowded space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Dodd had accomplished the near-impossible: making something said in a Senate committee hearing freshly framed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Sindell: The Universal Rules of Framing Part II: What Does The Proscenium Frame?] Reference

The acceptance of any finding contrary to an already established point of view is near-impossible for such organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Unless the near-impossible happens, and he somehow overcomes Franken's 225-or-so vote margin, Norman's a former Senator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Minnesotans Want Coleman To Concede Defeat] Reference

It's a fascinating checklist of things we all take completely for granted here, and how near-impossible they are in Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week's new DVD and Blu-ray] Reference

The night of his heroic, near-impossible march, he was given "asinine directions" by superiors that he proceeded to ignore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korean War documentary, 'Uncommon Courage: Breakout at Chosin,' debuts] Reference

He tries to see the process as the pols do, a near-impossible challenge, since these men tend not to be introspective souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Stooped To Conquer] Reference

I think McCain's near-impossible task is just about right, it's going to take a lot more than tinkering with his stump speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

This presents a near-impossible situation for Israeli Arabs who are prevented from living with Palestinian spouses inside Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine] Reference

I think all, or at least almost all, of these misjudgments on the playing field were inevitable byproducts of human frailty in the face of near-impossible tasks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: The Weakest Links] Reference