Sentence examples for was virtually inconceivable from inspiring English sources

In the context of Chinese politics, in which control of armies was the main source of power, President Chiang's compliance was virtually inconceivable.

Manuel's primary alternative on Saturday was the rookie left-hander Jon Niese, but it was virtually inconceivable that, with the season on the line, he would use a pitcher with three major league starts.

In Italy (where the traditional technique of building had, even during the Middle Ages, assumed that structure was independent of appearance and where it was common to complete a building in brick before adding its marble facades) the idea that there could be any theoretical dilemma regarding the unison between these two elements was virtually inconceivable.

The fraud squad spoke to planners in Kent and Essex, but while both counties said planning permission on UKLI sites within their borders was virtually inconceivable, neither could say housing would "never, ever" be built on the sites UKLI was selling.

Marriage equality, for instance, was virtually inconceivable then.

One year ago, it was virtually inconceivable that Russia might cooperate with the United States in containing Iran's nuclear ambitions.

(Given everything that has been said by now, it is virtually inconceivable that there will not be a military response).

It is virtually inconceivable that the two sweetly bumbling officers in charge of the case can't find the missing teenagers practically under their noses.

"It's virtually inconceivable that the supreme court will not take the issue up," said Steve Sanders, a law professor at Indiana University at Bloomington's Maurer school of law.

Junger, who reviewed Marlantes's book for this newspaper, wrote that the racial tensions in Vietnam, the "military callousness or incompetence" that Matterhorn reveals "would be virtually inconceivable today".

But given the size and makeup of the geological structures between the seabed and the reservoir, it's virtually inconceivable that an explosive could blast a bigger hole than already exists and release even more oil.