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"From our everyday experiences working with girls and young women, we know how profoundly they feel the pressure to conform to a particular body image and how badly they can be affected by these unobtainable ideals."

Civil War, and her father was born in 1874 in Louisiana, but his birth certificate was unobtainable because the local parish records had burned.

I GET so many letters about manufacturers' unobtainable fuel consumption figures.

forces; provide a way for the conflict to end that is consistent with previous Communist Chinese behavior; and finally, provide for conflict resolution that does not require an unobtainable "decisive" victory.

Unfortunately on his third attempt to alert the authorities the recorded message came back saying the number was unobtainable.

Sunglasses cost as much as a year's salary in developing countries, so they are simply unobtainable for the average person.

"Together, we will develop a unique performance profile for biobased plasticizers that will enable us to create compounds with properties that are unobtainable today." www.polyone.com.

Though this raises the specter of marketers being able to read people's minds, neuromarketing may prove to be an affordable way to gather material that previously was unobtainable or that consumers themselves may not even be aware of fully.

Just as most of us have coveted some wildly expensive designer bag, so we occasionally lust after an unobtainable man or woman.

Drug trafficking will continue unabated, but a victory for our troops is historically unobtainable (Russia tried and failed).

HallStar's SolaStay S1 is a new, more powerful photostabilizer that, when added to sunscreen formulations, can help sunscreen formulators achieve previously unobtainable levels of protection against both the burning and aging rays of the sun.