"This is a criticism of the president and the administration," he said, adding that the administration had not acknowledged how extraordinarily difficult it would be to achieve diplomatic and military success in Iraq.
That makes the aid effort that is being spearheaded by Nepal's two neighbours, the regional giants China and India, not only indispensable but extraordinarily difficult.
It is extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to design a clinical study that can truly take into account all of these differences.
Extraordinarily difficult, but not impossible: and yet the gap between what family life provides and what a life in care provides is a yawning chasm.
Once successive regimes have allowed, or at least ignored the vacuum, it becomes extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, for the state to step back in to fill that space when it is called upon to do so.
But perhaps because he is a novelist, he finds the task extraordinarily difficult, and not only because of the inevitable need to simplify -- especially acute in the case of a Victorian work teeming with secondary characters and subplots.
"So things like getting up off the ground would have been extraordinarily difficult if not impossible".
Moreover, obtaining a closed solution may become in some cases extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, especially as the complexity of the system under study increases.
But it is extraordinarily difficult, if not psychologically impossible, for me to project myself into his shoes, for I expect him to be radically different, psychologically, from me.
Public relations experts, however, contend that winning back public opinion will be an extraordinarily difficult if not impossible task at this point in the Cosby narrative.
