impossible task
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimpossibleandtask
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impossible
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/us/ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
If an action or event is impossible, it cannot happen or ...
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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofimpossibleandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofimpossible task
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This freed women from the nearimpossibletaskof getting party backing for their candidacies.
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This turned out to be animpossibletask.
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Matching human subtlety is animpossibletaskfor the formalist.
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It sounds animpossibletaskand one that is hardly likely to meet with any success.
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An exact description of the network is animpossibletask.
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Practically, that would be animpossibletask.
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The compiler/author of this work was faced with animpossibletask+ expressing the depth and breadth of the entire 1917+21 period in fewer than 300 pages.
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This is a nearimpossibletask.
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Of course this was animpossibletask.
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Though this is a difficult task, requiring proper institutional arrangements, it may not be animpossibletask, given the benefits from such a programme.
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Trying to synthesize these developments into one textbook which will stand the test of time must rate as an increasinglyimpossibletask, particularly with the developments in electronic publishing.
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Moreover, the study of equilibrium measures, which serves as our motivation, requires theimpossibletaskof checking these conditions for all invariant measures.
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Thus, to arrive at a consensual definition of the quality of life or quality of care is a difficult if notimpossibletask.
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At first sight, it may seem animpossibletaskto measure such difficult concepts as spiritual belief.
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It's animpossibletask, but the joy of his language speaks to his rapture as a listener.
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The author faced an almostimpossibletaskin attempting to consider all the main diseases of the whole range of tropical crops in a mere 200 pages.
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It seems animpossibletaskto implement a realistic language correctly on the basis of a loose idea of how it should work.
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