Some of the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita is all but impossible to see by land.
Never mind length, getting new work seen by audiences is all but impossible these days.
The brain is so delicate that finding a safe and effective drug has been all but impossible.
While Schmidt seemed serious with his proposal of name-changing, such lengths are not only impractical but impossible.
The lack of any central computer server makes it all but impossible to wipe out illegal copies.
The broad coalitions that dominate the landscape in both Italy and Germany will find it all but impossible.
His negative attitude towards Israel made it all but impossible for Begin to walk away from the table.
This makes forecasting anything but a continuous downturn in margins all but impossible.
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Since most of a company's shares are typically held in friendly hands, hostile takeovers have been all but impossible.
But when it sits over Europe's biggest airports that is all but impossible.
But a deal, or even a fudge that would at least allow normal trade relations, looks all but impossible.
For the Obama Administration, such official connections make something like the Kabul Bank scandal difficult to confront but impossible to ignore.
It means they need to make IT infrastructure strategic: value-creating, flexible, easy to consume but impossible to hack, and breathtakingly responsive.
But as Hemingway points out, the fact-check goes out of its way to insist a U.S. attack is all but impossible.
Crucially, until property rights and contracts are properly enforced, straightforward commercial lending will remain all but impossible, even to fragrant borrowers.
Their challenge is to provide hundreds of millions of perfect copies of a product that is cheap to make but impossible to fake.
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When the source material is ultrafamiliar and the original film full of top-tier stars, it's all but impossible to survive the comparison game.
More generally, the credit crisis has made IPOs all but impossible for small start-ups and has chilled venture capitalists' enthusiasm for young potential Google-killers.
Given the sizable cost of individual bonds, a well-diversified portfolio of government, corporate and foreign bonds is all but impossible for a small investor.
Gerrymandered districts produce extremist politicians, among whom agreement is all but impossible since two-thirds majorities are needed to pass budgets and impose new taxes.
Shrinking the league by two teams was an idea the owners floated back then, though the power of players union rendered it all but impossible.
Tracking down the anonymous haters proved to be all but impossible.
Yet, as it is free we will have saved our customers money compared with manual mailboxes, making it all but impossible for the authorities to complain.
One thing's clear, however: By sharply reducing the number of overlapping models offered under each brand, Chrysler will make it all but impossible for stand-alone dealers to survive.
Nor are household surveys good at capturing inequality at the very top, not least because it is all but impossible to get the ultra-rich to take part in them.
But once in a while, like now, we stop to focus on what we ask of the people who serve in our stead when the task seems all but impossible.
And Michael, is the feeling that al-Maliki isn't the right man for the job or might it just be the case that the job is all but impossible for any man?
The Londoner gathered herself at the start of the second set and kept pace until game five, at which point a difficult task became all but impossible as Pennetta broke serve once again.
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