Sentences with phrase «not impossible»

Certainly it would be inappropriate (if not impossible) to trust sincerely in something we suspect may not be true or realistic.

It's unlikely, but not impossible.

Second, since we do not know when the tribulation will begin, we do know that when it does, it will be very difficult, if not impossible for people on earth during that time to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

We are here and talking so it is not impossible.

Since these elements are prior to, rather than derivative from, what is normally referred to as «perception» (i.e., presentational immediacy), it is not impossible in principle to attribute these elements to lower forms of actual entities.

Parsing such «word salad» would be difficult, if not impossible.

These are not easy things to do; but they are not impossible.

The answer is that they were confronted in the first place with vast cultural trends such as technological advance, professionalization, and secularism that they could not easily control; and their problem was made the worse by pressures of cultural pluralism and Christian ethical principles that made it awkward if not impossible for them to take any decisive stand against the secularizing trends.

When a late Isaiah represents God as saying, «I dwell... with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite,» (Isaiah 57:15) the question rises in the mind of one who understands from within what the implied experience means: If God so cares for persons one by one and so dwells in them with creative power, is it not impossible that the relationship will be summarily terminated at death?

It is not easy for a nonalcoholic to understand the inner world of an alcoholic, but it is also not impossible.

But it's not impossible to destroy the defendant by other means.

In any case, the task was not impossible.

The steps I have described are not impossible.

Thus growth - producing intimacy is difficult if not impossible without a spiritual center and source.

This means the revival of church organizations — a difficult but not impossible task.

Where the cartoon character says «getting rid of the sun will be difficult but not impossible».

To be sure it is not impossible, though artificial, to understand.

It is not impossible, heretical, or apostate, for me to believe that God might inspire either myself or other Believers to utilize the political system to further God's work in the world, in orther that God's will might be done.

The economic historian Jeffrey Lustig has well summarized the issues: «What is necessary is not an impossible attempt to separate the corporation from its social integument, but to acknowledge their mutual dependence and to ensure that the corporations become socially accountable.

But he does say that we have a right and even a duty to hope for the salvation of all, because it is not impossible that even the worst sinners may be moved by God's grace to repent before they die.

In spite of the attempt of national leaders and the mass media to interpret the incident as a malicious terrorist act of disgruntled and frustrated people full of evil intensions, for many North Americans it was difficult, if not impossible, to accept it as non-religious.

Perhaps, as Montefiore asserts, there were some men whom Jesus found it desperately difficult, if not impossible, to love — or, at any rate, always to love; although it would certainly be a mistake to identify these simply as Pharisees.

But he did have his characteristic emphases and it is not impossible to determine what some of them were.

So it seems to be not impossible that hierarchical structures could be reducible to quantum mechanics, although, as we shall see later, the whole scheme of quantum mechanics is now in such confusion that, to the outsider, it seems far from clear to what extent they will be able to help.

would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to entertain, even if Isaiah 53 was taken «messianically,» as was probably not the case so early.

It is not impossible (we do not and can not know) that the prophet has Cyrus in mind in the first of the four Servant Songs (42:1 - 4).

Popper indeed believes that the reduction of chemistry to physics, of biology to chemistry, of animal conscious or subconscious experience to biology, and of consciousness itself and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, are all problems the complete success of which seems most unlikely if not impossible.

It is not impossible that the cultural crisis of our day will issue in a world - revolution.

Unless you «weaponize» a rubber or IUD (not impossible just silly) the fact remains that contraception is still a health concern and not something focused upon in terms of strategy or logistics.

The fact is that most chaotic motion is not, on limited average, utterly unlike regular or nearly regular behavior, and while this qualitative judgment is very difficult if not impossible to make into mathematically rigorous conclusions, its practical value as a perception is an important starting point for constructive results in the theory.

Catholics, as well as any other group opposed to the taking of innocent human life, will find it difficult if not impossible to practice medicine in accordance with the ACOG recommendations.

Barth's alternative implied a methodological pluralism, not an impossible blank slate.

He admits that it would be difficult to reconcile this with traditional doctrine, but not impossible.

The papal condemnation of condom use is making the fight against AIDS much more difficult, if not impossible, in places like sub-Saharan Africa, where there is an estimated 22 million people infected.

It is a point in his favor that he enjoys the support of Joab and Abiathar the priest: it is difficult if not impossible to think that either of these would have supported him if David himself were on record in support of another candidate.

Certainly for devotional purposes it is hard if not impossible to distinguish between these two; indeed, it is equally difficult to distinguish these two from whatever is known of «God the Father.»

It is difficult, if not impossible, to come up with anyone who thinks more seriously about these topics than the present pontiff.

It'll be hard, but not impossible, for you to buy me a drink or a coup of coffee: Marriage has become, we can say, individualized or Lockeanized enough that homosexuals can reasonably wonder....

There are then very - likely causes - the husband or boyfriend - as well as more unlikely, but not impossible, causes.

Not impossible, but not easy.

As Edward Ball demonstrated in his best - selling Slaves in the Family, it is not impossible to trace back the family trees of slaves and slaveowners in place after place, with the aid of census records, tax records, and probate records, and identify who exactly was guilty of enslaving whom.

Though meeting the challenges that face us is difficult, it is not impossible.

T4 is ruled out by the contention that God is at least possible — he is not impossible, the concept of God is not meaninglessness or contradictory.

The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).

It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine how we could consistently generalize the claim that nonsentient beings have rights.

Until liberal American Christians begin to take interest in African Christian thought and seriously engage with it, dialogue between the two will remain tortuous, if not impossible.

Had we been contemporaries during his incarnation, I might have found it difficult, if not impossible, to be Jesus» friend.

It's not impossible to raise Catholic children well in the secular world, but it's not easy.

But it is not impossible.

For individuals, inadequate saving can make retirement difficult, if not impossible, should expectations about future benefits not be met.