The patients were asked to grade their usual headache intensity as mild (maintaining normal activities without problems), moderate (maintaining normal activities with difficulty), severe (must give up normal activities and lie down) or extremely severe (impossible to stay still).
"I remember that the concerto seemed to us to be extremely difficult, almost impossible to perform".
Dispersing refugees across France will make monitoring procedural inadequacies, and delivering aid, extremely difficult to impossible to achieve.
"Barack did a good job on the regulatory side, but he made the decision that it was going to be somewhere between extremely unlikely and impossible to get a big energy bill.
In any case, doctors may never determine whether a slip of the needle made a difference, because even at autopsy the trajectory of the needle would be extremely difficult, even impossible, to trace.
"With respect to home ownership," Professor Schill said, "a typical New York renter household today would find it extremely difficult or impossible to purchase an average-priced home, particularly given the recent run-up in mortgage interest rates".
It is indeed extremely difficult, almost impossible, to imagine the archbishop of Paris suggesting "a helpful interaction between the courts and the practice of Muslim legal scholars" as Rowan Williams did in Britain.
It is extremely difficult, even impossible, to repair or replace these malfunctioning devices on orbit.
Small-bucket models of this size are extremely hard or impossible to solve using standard optimization software.
The offerings that will come to dominate the emerging $100 billion market for enterprise applications will be those that are "authentically mobile," a term we use to describe services that would be extremely difficult or impossible to achieve without taking full advantage of the unique properties of the mobile ecosystem.
