This churlish attitude should come as a surprise to Americans who regard the U.S.-Soviet nuclear rivalry to be virtually concluded and who now worry -- at the President's behest -- about the nuclear ambitions of Saddam Hussein and his ilk.
It broke little new ground and largely saw the signing of deals that had been virtually concluded, most notably a $10 billion loan from China to the Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, and an agreement to allow Brazilian chicken into China.
"It is virtually certain," Ms. Weir concludes, "that, dying in her bed, she would not have enjoyed the charismatic, romantic posthumous reputation that is hers today".
Scientists have told the BBC News website that it is virtually impossible to conclude anything from the images alone.
It is virtually impossible to conclude that the obscenely excessive prosecution he now faces is unrelated to that journalism and his related activism.
When one examines, as Nash does, the string of increasingly one-sided and self-dealing contracts that Parker put before his client, it is virtually impossible not to conclude Parker was a crook.
But, as a June 25 report by the International Crisis Group concluded, it is virtually controlled by Shiite militias.
While convalescing in the U.S., Tunnell wrote a paper about his tour in Iraq that concluded, "It is virtually impossible to convince any committed terrorist who hates America to change his or her point of view — they simply must be attacked relentlessly".
In July, a team of international scientists brought together by Climate Central concluded that "it is virtually certain" that the heat wave that struck Europe in early July was more likely now due to climate change.
In its latest report, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it is virtually certain that, in global terms, hot days have become hotter and occur more often; indeed, they have increased in frequency by a factor of 10 in most regions of the world.
We conclude that hypBΔ is virtually lethal.
