This was just what they did not need for their first time out as the new firm of Gage & Burch; a nearly impossible assignment.

In a few moments he realized that he had undertaken an impossible assignment.

In each book, he contrives to send the unit on yet another 'impossible' assignment.

I was brought in to straighten it out, but it was an impossible assignment.

Cebrowski may well have the most impossible assignment in the American government, but he has made some shrewd choices about how to tackle it.

Every government devoted to full implementation finds this an impossible assignment.

These soldiers had been given an impossible assignment, he believed.

Anderson, their friend, had given them this impossible assignment; all the Captain had to do was follow it up.

Teyeo knew as soon as he met her that this was an impossible assignment.

It puts team members together in a garage with a nearly impossible assignment, which must be completed in seven days on a budget of $3,000.