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make possible

v. make accessible; "This answer opens the door to new objections"

Usage examples of "make possible".

Doubtless it is many billion years old, and dates back to the time when Pluto possessed enough internal heat to make possible the development of certain rudimentary plant-forms on its blind surface.

Of her own proud, half-disdainful consent to make possible the hackneyed compromising situation by marrying the rascal, and then - of his disappearance from the train.

Nor should it be forgotten that long before Daedalus appeared in Attica and with his wooden statues so transformed sculpture as to make possible the schools of Corinth and AEgina, and their ultimate triumphs the Poecile and Capitolium--long before the age of Daedalus, I say, two Israelites, Bezaleel and Aholiab, the master-builders of the first tabernacle, said to have been skilled 'in all manner of workmanship,' wrought the cherubim of the mercy-seat above the ark.

He turned from Anselme, and began to chew some roots of the garlic-like plant, which he had doubtless collected to make possible those operations which he could hardly have carried on in wolfish form.

In that form you sought to enjoy the hundred-billion or more years that such a transformation might make possible.

It was needful to economise severely, to make possible the great alterations he must introduce.

On the other hand, those who pooh-pooh science revert, as a rule, to some ancient and pernicious superstition, and refuse to admit the immense increase of human happiness which scientific technique, if widely used, would make possible.

Rous and his 5 companions kept waiting impatiently for the small light window to appear again down below on the plain, which would make possible their return into the normal universe.

I wanted Ron to share a moment he had done so much to make possible.

New types of glass (notably borosilicate and lead-alkali glass) will make possible much improved laboratory glassware and optical instruments.