For instance, the bill will make it virtually impossible for companies to promote less harmful forms of tobacco.

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Licensing rules also make it virtually impossible for people from other professions to take up new careers as teachers.

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Jonathan Heath, a private economic consultant, notes that poor documentation of loans, along with laws that make it virtually impossible to seize property, may make the recovery rate even lower.

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The President has already said that to follow through with this act would make it virtually impossible for the United States to provide the nutritional assistance that we had planned to provide.

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Bostock and the rest of the board call the offer insufficient and adopt a poison pill-type HR plan to make it virtually impossible for Microsoft to go through with the deal in a hostile manner.

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But that would make it virtually impossible for abusers to be prosecuted successfully: the police need evidence from several people in each case, as juries are unlikely to convict on the evidence of one victim alone.

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This means there is now no hope of the government embarking on the reforms that are so badly needed to change India's rigid labour laws, which make it virtually impossible to sack workers or close uneconomic factories.

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Much like Manhattan apartment brokers who resist putting their best properties on a central listing service, PE firms use performance measurements like multiple of investment or internal rate of return that make it virtually impossible to compare one fund against another unless they started the same time and have had similar cash inflows and outflows.

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Instead, some automakers make turning her off virtually impossible at best and dangerous at worst if you happen to be driving while attempting it.

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