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Unattainable in sentence

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What that means is that wealth is not only becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a select group of individuals, but the American dream is becoming increasingly unattainable for an increasing majority of us.
In large parts of the world, higher education is unattainable for an average citizen.
I don't think it's an unattainable, harmonious utopia, I think the opposite of polarity is duality.
The funny thing was, it was actually at that time a feminist declaration of independence from the pressure I felt as a 17-year-old, to conform to a perfect and unattainable standard of beauty.
Music led me on a path of searching for what seemed like the unattainable for a very long time.
We strive for unattainable perfection.
Even at this full (?) running time, figures appear and disappear with alarming suddenness: the Deborah character is fleetingly established in child form, a cold and unattainable 'trophy' female, not even hinting at the gravity with which she will re-establish her relationship with a post-prison Noodles, the said re-union henceforth rings completely false.
Let's see some real players trying for a truly unattainable girl, and maybe you have a show.
The student enjoys his money, but the woman he loves is unattainable (he has made a pact with the devil, he is cut off forever from love and other riches of the soul) you can have love or you can exchange your soul for money, you cannot have both.
Made at the time when video shops were appearing by the dozen in high streets all over the UK "Gregory's Girl" was a definite "must hire" for any schoolboy who had ever gazed longingly and hopelessly at some unattainable figure in the playground whilst she totally blanks him and chats unconcernedly to her mates,not knowing she carries his heart in her hands.It is at the same time an evocation of the sweet pain and joy of adolescent love and a grand comedy of young manners.
Perhaps it's the film, or just my insanity, but either way "Get Real" gives me the strange urge and unattainable goal of being a gay school boy from Great Britain.
Mysterious and unattainable Susan Hayward leads an odd assortment of morbidly pensive adventurers in a mortal quest.
In a frustrating sense, this film shows that perfection is unattainable !
Unattainable love and infatuation play central themes in Ming Ming's world, one which contains fantasy martial arts elements, set in today's contemporary era.
Love is unattainable, communication is impossible.
The return of governments based on the will of the majority of their citizens seemed for decades an unattainable dream in these countries, much as it remains a dream for the citizens of Burma under the rule of its military junta.
That goal will remain unattainable unless and until we establish the long-overdue principle that a child’s right to education knows no boundaries.
So, in the political sphere, reason has trumped both faith in an unattainable goal and self-delusion about the consequences of its pursuit.
In Palestinian politics, total victory and Israel’s destruction is still preferable to an honest assessment that this goal is unattainable, terrorism must be abandoned, and law and order must be imposed.
But while perfect policy is unattainable, partly effective controls can still play a useful role if targeted at the interface between short-term inflows and domestic credit cycles.
Under the CCP, they have gained power and privileges that were unattainable under British rule.
When the US fostered the Kurds’ unattainable dreams, they stoked the fears of an insecure Turkish leadership.
Indeed, as regional conflicts have intensified, the country’s central foreign-policy objective of ensuring “zero problems” with its neighbors has become unattainable.
But this objective was also unattainable under President Mohammad Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s reform-minded predecessor.
The choices they make will depend on how they weigh the risks of bloating their balance sheets, imposing costs on banks and consumers, pursuing possibly unattainable inflation targets, and hurting debtors and producers at home.
At a time of deep recession, such support should not be made contingent on reaching unattainable fiscal objectives.
Cooperation and coordination of this kind and at this level were unattainable during earlier financial crises.
The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
The EU was brought into existence by a process of piecemeal social engineering – the method Popper considered appropriate to an open society – directed by a far-sighted, purposeful elite who recognized that perfection is unattainable.
Germany assuming the role of a benign hegemon would benefit everyone, but that seems to be unattainable.
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