"The plan presented today serves the creditors far better than any alternative transaction, including a liquidation or sale of the airline, both of which are exceedingly remote," said Mr. Matell.

And I am obliged to add, that the likelihood of any such state is exceedingly remote.

Roy Chapman Andrews: famous explorer, dinosaur hunter, exemplar of Anglo-Saxon virtues, crack shot, fighter of Mongolian brigands, the man who created the metaphor of 'Outer Mongolia' as denoting any exceedingly remote place.

The chances, while real, must be exceedingly remote, so he reflected.

Loch A'an is a exceedingly remote freshwater loch set deep within the central Cairngorms plateau, in the Cairngorms National Park, located in the eastern Highlands of Scotland.

Responding to a threat by some of its lenders, Eastern Airlines said liquidation of the airline was "exceedingly remote."

"The risk is exceedingly remote, Madam Councillor."

"Though exceedingly remote, we thought this possibility was reason for caution and concern," Greely told me recently.

The risk of pericardial valve thrombosis is exceedingly remote.

Its exceedingly remote location preserved it from looters.