Mass challenges to absentee ballots leave legitimate voters with little practical chance to defend themselves.
The agreement also appears to remove any practical chance that MBIA's split into two companies will be reversed.
In poor countries, laments Ms Garrett, "we almost spit on the private sector".But it is the private sector that may offer the most practical chance of progress.
In a city like New York, a candidate appearing on only the Conservative Party line has no practical chance of being elected mayor.
Others agree that the ultimate reason the deal will now go through is simply that its negotiators succeeded in making the case that it represents the best practical chance of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
House and Senate sessions only overlap for five days next week before the lower chamber breaks up for Christmas, making the next few days the last practical chance to strike a deal before current spending authority expires on January 15.
There's also a ferment here of independent filmmaking that liberates young people who, in earlier times, might have had to scuffle or supplicate for years while angling for a practical chance that now, with video, and with adequate effort, they can seize for themselves.
As for positron emission tomography (PET), that was a very expensive research tool for the neurosciences, plus a smattering of cardiology, that we were taught about but had little practical chance of coming in contact with, especially in Australia which lacked a cyclotron for producing the required radionuclides to fuel the PET camera.
Indeed, in the aftermath of that election, pundits, consultants and even an internal party "autopsy" made clear that the GOP needed to course correct and make significant headway with minority voters to have any practical chance at the presidency in future elections.
The corners of square keeps were theoretically vulnerable to siege engines and galleried mining, but before the introduction of the trebuchet at the end of the 12th century, early artillery stood little practical chance of damaging the keeps, and galleried mining was rarely practised.
