Which preposition to use with impossible
It was impossible for the English prince, heir to the throne, to marry a Catholic princessit seemed equally impossible for the French princess to become a Protestant.
No wonder that the selfless life seems impossible to most people.
It is impossible in this brief sketch to give an adequate portrait of a great personality and to tell the story of his life's work.
I supposed him perverse and impossible of pleasing.
We are sorry, but it will be impossible at this time to open work at Arochuku.
The loose snow was already over five feet deep on the meadows, making extended walks impossible without the aid of snow-shoes.
Yet strangely enough after some four months of session the convention accomplished the impossible by framing a constitution that met the approval of the united delegates.
By and by, it became impossible with the naked eye to distinguish the individual points from the smaller stars; and shortly after this the nearest began to present discs of appreciable size but somewhat irregular shape.
Existing states have become impossible as absolutely independent sovereignties.
I think it would be practically impossible under those circumstances, while if you live in Australia you will have hardly any means.
a thing which excites the compassion of all the world, and the delight of Madame de Rohan and Madame de Hauterive; a thing which is to be done on Sunday, when those who see it will hardly believe their eyes; a thing which will be done on Sunday, and which might perhaps be impossible on Monday: I cannot possibly announce it; guess it; I give you three guesses; try now.
It will be impossible within the space now left to do more than indicate the chief events of this period, which was not remarkable for any fresh departure either in educational or religious work.
God never expects the impossible from us, you know.
That too became impossible after your discovery.
Thus, anything like a "pleasure" excursion by water, in the neighborhood of New York, has been rendered impossible during the present season, by the New York Rendering Company.
They had gone to Weymouth, but as within two hours of their arrival Weymouth had become even more impossible than Werter Road, they had ignominiously but wisely come back.
But once the leading members of the League have made it clear that they have reached an understanding which will both secure to the League of Nations the strength which is necessary to enable it to protect its members and which at the same time will make misunderstanding and suspicion with regard to competitive armaments impossible between them its future and its authority will be assured.
The affections and the conscience of mankind are too violently outraged by the spectacle; and a great mass of feeling is forming which one may fairly hope will ere long make this form of strife impossible among the more modern peoples.
"I don't see anything impossible about 'poor Alice.'
Salvage impossible until ice breaks.
The plot of the short story as a distinct type of literature has been said to show a steady progress from the impossible through the improbable and probable to the inevitable.
Yet it would be hard to find a happier couple in the island,in fact, quite impossible outside the Salvation Army.
Resistance was impossible against such an overwhelming array of forces, who massacred nearly the whole of the male population, and sold their wives and children as slaves.
" The Secretary of War again writes (May 22d): "It has been impossible before now, to make you a remittance of funds, and they cannot yet all be sent for your expedition.
the seemingly impossible like all else.