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- adjective Not
fulfillable .
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Examples
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The unfulfillable promise to destroy Hezbollah was.
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How can it invade Gaza on the empty goal to engage in an "all-out war" with Hamas and plausibly leave before that unfulfillable end-state is achieved?
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[F] eminist theory of this sort feeds general heterosexist stereotypes about lesbians in which fulfilling sexual connection is deemed impossible in the absence of gender alterity, at best a bad copy and unfulfillable attempt to simulate the "real thing."
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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Hell is eternal unrequited love, eternal absence, eternal unfulfillable longing.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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Many of our best and brightest spend as many as eight to ten years chasing unfulfillable dreams.
Controlling The Crisis On Campus Mark C. Taylor 2010
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Now it is fighting to escape the shadow of so many other liberation movements that came to office with great dreams only to see them founder under the weight of unfulfillable expectations and against the backdrop of corruption, infighting, and misrule.
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• A donor's self-aggrandizing and mostly unfulfillable wish to attribute success to his or her particular grant funds
Paul Brest: Philanthropy at its Somewhat Myopic: Mistaking Means and Ends 2009
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And unfulfillable expectations from a person who is not stable in his political views and is not a visionary.
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Entitled "All I Want for Christmas," the film stars a 7-year-old girl with a seemingly unfulfillable Christmas wish, and the Macy's department-store Santa Claus who is able to grant it.
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There is no point is protesting the implausibility of much of this, the danger of unrealistic hopes and unfulfillable dreams.
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