Sentence examples for if not virtually impossible from inspiring English sources

Such genetic manipulation would be extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible, to detect using current methods, scientists said.

In truth, it would be hard -- if not virtually impossible -- for Democrats to deny the governor the chance to seek re-election, though Republicans are certainly trying, And so they have already started to campaign against Mr. McGreevey, making him the main focus of this election.

Consequently, the endogeneity of the tax status may produce a spurious correlation between the leverage ratio and the marginal tax rate, making it difficult, if not virtually impossible, to draw causal inferences.

But Tor makes it "extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible" for law enforcement to identify some illegal activity on the Internet.

Who was susceptible to it and who was not were virtually impossible to predict.

Giving people a 'sell-by' date is not only virtually impossible but can be harmful.

But isn't it virtually impossible for anyone to get their first book noticed?

It is an ethical minefield, not to mention virtually impossible to find research funding for.

At any rate, as Mark L. Movsesian, a law professor at St . Johns University, pointed out, any effort to ban hateful or offensive speech worldwide would be virtually impossible, if not counterproductive.

And we submit that it had incorrectly interpreted and construed federal law in doing that, because what they have inevitably done is provide a process whereby it is virtually impossible, if not completely impossible, and I think it is completely impossible, to have these issues resolved and the controversies resolved in time for that federal statutory deadline.

"It is virtually impossible not to fall in love with her".