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This grim record makes it near-impossible for outsiders to take seriously Sudan's claims that it is trying to minimise the violence.

If this is a "crisis year, " then governments are going to be destabilized in ways that you thought six months ago would be near impossible.

To analogize , it's like finding a gorgeous pair of heels that are also very comfortable - near impossible.

Your Angelic Keepers can do what you would see as near impossible, and many lives have been saved by them.

Selling charity raffle tickets is hard; coaxing tycoons to pledge half their fortunes to philanthropy is near impossible.

Handling full result sets is problematic at best, and near impossible without deep supporting application logic.

Transportation in that region of China is difficult to begin with; landslides and bridge collapses made it near impossible after the quake.

Surviving amidst today's ferocious competition is near impossible for these small retail outlets.

Switching quickly between more than around six or seven is near-impossible even for the most gifted.

Producing enough antiprotons to bend the space-time continuum looks near impossible as far as our current technology goes.

Investors who don't fully grasp the Middle Kingdom's new role as world leader will find it near impossible to make money.

A commercial spaceplane has remained a near near-impossible dream to some of the best engineers in the world.

Overcoming anxiety attacks can seem near impossible if you're a chronic sufferer.

It is difficult to model out YouTube's costs accurately, so knowing how close it is to profit is near impossible.

'Also, the sound-proofing is really bad, ' making it near-impossible to have a private phone conversation.

Keeping up with these lists becomes near impossible, a full-time job.

Even the stock market, though it is subject to fades and manias, is near-impossible to beat over time.

That guarantee is near impossible for most patients.

This had made it near impossible to extract DNA from the mummy until now.

Pain is hard to live with but near impossible to survive without.

Autopederasty is the near-impossible act of sticking one's own fully-erect penis in one's own rectum.

That saves programmers the near-impossible task of coding rules that describe all the zillions of possible movements a body can make.

It's unfair--I near impossible to go first.

The result is that true public exploration of vital questions facing China is near impossible.

"Surf's Up" is near impossible to pull off.

In the former, it was near impossible to find a self-declared communist.

That is good for Microsoft since customers find it near-impossible to abandon Windows.