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Trying everything new in the catalogues is a virtual impossibility.

"I'm beginning to think a general cease-fire may be a virtual impossibility," he said.

This is a virtual impossibility over the long run.

The above considerations make a general purpose handwriting recognition system a virtual impossibility.

She called the defense's contention "a virtual impossibility."

We have traveled from the possibility of using only a credit card to the virtual impossibility of not doing so.

This grand procession should not be confused with a Nets championship parade, a virtual impossibility.

He talked of the virtual impossibility that any security officer could have protected a building against a large plane loaded with fuel plowing into it.

Back and forth they zip on the aluminum seesaw, making it a virtual impossibility to see what is happening onstage.

The blue platforms, surrounded by many barriers that make accidents a virtual impossibility, are eerily serene.

Being in the red is a virtual impossibility, barring embezzlement or blackmail for sexual indiscretions.

She spoke in it about the Members' Statute and about the virtual impossibility of making progress on that issue.

A collision was a virtual impossibility.

They were termed "natural satellites" and implied that they had been recently captured, despite this being a virtual impossibility.

Accordingly, Stanley Mill was designed and built so that destruction by fire was a virtual impossibility.

The only way Kay thinks he can stop van Curtis is by killing the Emperor, a virtual impossibility.

"In today's world, meeting the existing criteria is a virtual impossibility," Mechem said in a telephone interview.

This in turn makes the idea of identity a virtual impossibility, reducing it to the objective category of sameness .

It seemed a virtual impossibility; and once again, as she had when Ramses rose from the coffin, she felt she was going to faint.

Since the magicians control all aspects of the lives of their assorted clans, a gathering such as we were seeing was a virtual impossibility.

Doing so in New Jersey is a virtual impossibility, because the Nets are expected to be almost $20 million over the salary cap next season.

Hundreds more stars showed "wobbles" like Barnard's Star's when photographs before and after cleaning were compared - a virtual impossibility.

Running away is a virtual impossibility for children deployed as camel jockeys since the azbas are usually in remote desert locations.

Drawbacks to this system include the virtual impossibility of calibrating such a system to recognize all possible activities of pool patrons.

Because of the great expense and virtual impossibility of cleaning up the Nevada Test Site, it has been characterized as a "national sacrifice zone."