Sentences with phrase «almost impossible»

It is almost impossible to conceive of the transfer in reverse.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has taken the step amid claims the changes to the Church of England would make eventual reunification with the Roman Catholic Church almost impossible.

The virus behaves in a similar way to HIV in the body, and will allow researchers to development a treatment that effectively trains the immune system to target the virus, something that up to now, has been almost impossible.

Circumstances had arisen where it was almost impossible for him to allow himself to grasp the real import of the New Testament, because that would have been too dangerous.

It destroys the basis for real friendship by making uncalculating appreciation of others almost impossible.

Hundreds of teachers have been removed from the classroom for misconduct but it is almost impossible to fire them because they are protected by the teachers» unions.

It is an almost impossible feat of willful ignorance — a denial of direct experience verging on sheer emotional and moral obtuseness.

Ironically, «freedom» seems to be a concept many Christians find almost impossible to understand and to respect.

You can't reach or teach morality to the crazy, you can only try and limit their access to getting weapons (which may be almost impossible).

Such a posture makes communication in a pluralistic world almost impossible.

LAMPE: I think the last part of your question is almost impossible to answer: «what really happened?»

I continually assert, change is difficult and almost impossible on two fronts: we resist personally, and it is resisted by those around us.

Most of them have so many additives and preservatives, it would be almost impossible to sort out the healthy stuff from the added junk.

So, while Pharaoh might have «freely» chosen to do what he did to Moses and the Jews, before we blame him we need to see that God has taken part of the credit and freely admitted to making it almost impossible for Pharaoh to have «freely» chosen otherwise.

That's almost an impossible task.»

Moreover, I am mostly going to pass over some of the personal discussions in the memoir, simply because I think it almost impossible to find a good way to take them up.

It's almost impossible to claim devotion to the Jesus of the Scriptures, while refusing refugees, expelling immigrants, vilifying brown people, worshiping political power, guarding borders and neglecting the poor — which is exactly the point.

That thinking — I am not saying «religion» but «thinking» — that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world.

William Aaron's autobiographical book Straight draws similar conclusions In the gay life, fidelity is almost impossible.

Again, the arithmetic is almost impossible to figure.

But, while it may look simple and easy, that rule is almost impossible to follow for most people without the help of Jesus

The image of God in man is man's capacity to relate himself meaningfully, freely, and with complete devotion to God Himself, but you and I have managed so to harm this capacity that it is almost impossible for us to make any strides whatsoever towards that relationship with God our Creator.

Realistically, they were almost impossible to verify in the circumstances, and I didn't see any of those with severe physical disabilities go up.

When persons are feeling hungry emotionally, perhaps unloved or unappreciated, it's almost impossible to resolve conflicting needs.

The rationale: It is almost impossible to become materially wealthy on Earth without sinning one way or other (lying, hoodwinking, cheating, begging, stealing, corruption, ignorance, lack of empathy, insiders» information, walking over someone, sleeping the way to top, hurting or depriving someone else in some way, etc.).

On the one hand, the JED denominations believe that they have a major responsibility in helping their congregations to choose the best educational programs for the specific goals each affirms; on the other hand, declining income, reduced staffs and denominational restructurings make it almost impossible for each denomination to do it effectively alone.

Actress Justina Machado brings a familiarity to the cast that is almost impossible to disbelieve.

As long as there are unspoken conventions that keep members from being friends who can tell one another about life at home and at work, it will be almost impossible for a pastor to convey to them that Christian faith affects all areas of life, all moral and social values.

«A very important factor which is making it almost impossible for Hindu - Muslim unity to become an accomplished fact is that the Muslim can not confine their patriotism to any one country.

It's almost impossible to get free of this double bind.

It would be almost impossible to stamp out that influence.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Almost impossible to choose a favourite Lamott book but this one just seems to always speak to me.

Thus it is almost impossible in each case to express the ideas of a text by one interpretation only, either in Arabic or in a foreign language, even with the greatest care.

Almost impossible to choose a favourite Lamott book but this one just seems to always speak to me.

But while I value their sociopolitical analyses and share their anger at the complex forces that make sane mothering almost impossible these days, I find little in their books to give me strength and hope for the journey — the strength and hope that are exactly what mothers need to resist the powers the authors describe.

In fact Catholic chastity education can confirm that those who follow the teaching of the Church will find it almost impossible to catch AIDS or any other venereal disease.

The words of Christ seem almost impossible to live up to, and yet, He not only commands us to do so, but even to be «perfect,» as our heavenly Father is.

At least Jesus is thought to have existed without any evidence whatsoever other than literature that has so much excluded and content that has been lost in translation that it's almost impossible to be a genuine Christian because no matter what you are ignorant to so many other facts... assuming everything is true.

It ran thus: ab — ba — ab; bc — cb — bc; cd — dc — cd; etc. «In the — the in — in the; the beginning — beginning the — the beginning; etc. etc.» One would think that any mistake with this system would be almost impossible, but just to be quite sure, an even more complicated system for learning the text was worked out.

In general, the schemes were designed so that each separate word was linked with the word or words before and following it, so that it would be almost impossible either to omit anything from the text or add anything to it.

It's almost impossible to convey the intensity of the scene: the vivid blue sky, the daughter's baptism as her mother lay dying, the white towel that was placed around Elise as she emerged from the water, the combination of dread, sadness, hope, and even joy that we all felt as witnesses to the event.

However, where members find an affinity with one another primarily because of family and class affiliation, they will find it almost impossible to see that «the brothers and sisters for whom Christ died» are the whole human race.

The familial group is smaller, not only because family planning has become a matter of ordinary practice but also because economic and social conditions have made large households almost impossible to maintain.

We now agree that «basic education» has become a right, because without it success is almost impossible.

The reason why the classification is so significant, is because if a drug is labeled «Schedule 1,» that means it is almost impossible to do any sort of legal clinical research on the drug, and no (technically legal) prescriptions can be written.

And even if he does think that God agrees with him, it is getting very hard, almost impossible, to say it out loud.

Applause for the theology of nongrowth will not last long, however, because it is almost impossible for a drowning community to clap.

Theology in the «70s is so faddish that it is almost impossible to keep up with the latest and figure out what is being said and why.

Our «Christian taliban» (Moral Majority / Religious Right) has so trashed our brand that it has become almost impossible to claim a «Christian * identity without being labeled a Republican and / or a yahoo fideist.

The idea of a poor mortal confronting and shaking his finger at the Ancient of Days as though he were an errant schoolboy is almost impossible to hold steadily in mind.