The problem was to make it politically possible for the leaders to agree.
"Mayor Bloomberg has made it politically possible to do this," he said.
He has a keen sense of what is politically possible.
That result will have made Brown reappraise what is politically possible.
"I don't believe it's politically possible," he said in an interview.
And what is politically possible does not fit with economic realities.
Now is that a politically possible solution do you think?
"The fund needs to remember what is politically possible."
In France, as everywhere, there are limits to what is politically possible.
Would that hurt small businesses, and is it politically possible?