Obviously this method has every limited application in most instances, because of the impossibility or impracticability of segregating specific items as coming from separate purchases.
It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.
In June 1913 it described the recent Entente Cordiale between Britain and France as the expression of tendencies which are slowly, but surely making war between the civilized communities of the world an impossibility.
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting.
Not enough testing at the bubble's border and the impossibility of controlling people's movements mean that the Games could spread the Delta variant of the virus, he said.