But being in charge of the constitution at the Cabinet Office, when the government's constitutional reform programme has virtually evaporated, is not a move to boast about.
Virtually, nothing here has not been heard more lucidly and to more potent or poetic effect.
By virtually any measure, it has not been a good year to be furry in Jersey.
Cervical cancer has not been eradicated and its incidence has remained virtually constant for several years.
There is virtually no natural medium that has not been explored and mastered by the Indian: jade, turquoise, shell, metals, stone, milkweed fibre, birch bark, porcupine quills, deer hair, llama dung, sea lion whiskers all were used by the artist to lend colour or texture to the finished product.
If you're to squeeze out virtually all the technical subjects up to the age of 16, which has virtually happened, well, you're not going to know what else you might have been good at".
But most are virtually unknown in Cuba, where their music has not been publicized or marketed.
Blanchard's explanatory typology certainly has not been roundly rejected by virtually all sexologists, as the sites of people such as Conway and James suggest.
While the few storms that came through helped the vineyards, overall there have not been virtually any significant improvements to the drought throughout the state according to AccuWeather Western Weather Expert Ken Clark.
The problem is that, although ITV's CITV screens Horrid Henry and Channel 5 has the Peppa Pig brand in its Milkshake! children's output, the commissioning of new original British children's shows by any British broadcaster other than the BBC has virtually ended because it is not commercially attractive.
