Another virtually insurmountable problem facing translators is how to deal with the author's intentional use of ambiguous terms and words that have several meanings.

With no new, unfettered orders for the second consecutive year, the B-2 program faces a virtually insurmountable fight next year to restore production money.

"The barriers to entry have been raised so high that, left standing, they appear virtually insurmountable," the study concluded.

In a real jaunt into the past, there would be a virtually insurmountable linguistic barrier.

By discussing evaluation solely in terms of cost benefit, virtually insurmountable problems are raised, as he notes:

Violette was a 9-2 favorite to take a virtually insurmountable chip lead.

That's where the niche conservatives run into a virtually insurmountable firewall.

"You have a virtually insurmountable nondiscrimination problem," Ms. Buchbinder said.

Yet it turned out to be possible to eliminate virtually insurmountable obstacles.

The problem just kept piling up until, in the eighteen-nineties, it seemed virtually insurmountable.