so far as possible

Beethoven kept going for another 25 years, propelled by his music, but he begged them to have his hearing loss studied and publicized, so that “so far as possible, the world may be reconciled to me after my death.”

How about the stated purpose of the workplace safety law: to “assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions”? How about the statutory command to “protect employees” from “grave danger”?

In the judge's written ruling, he said that removing her life support in a children's hospice "best accommodates Alta's welfare need for specialist care at the end of her life under a reliable, safe and sustainable system of high calibre care protected from disruption, whilst allowing, in so far as possible and consistent with Alta's best interests, the family and the community to perform the sacred religious obligations of the Orthodox Jewish faith".

Among the ancients, Archimedes appeared to have bridged this divide by showing how theory could be put to practical purposes, but the tension between the two approaches still continued in Newton, who sought to present his knowledge, in so far as possible, as pure theory, while insisting that it was based on evidence and had practical applications.

During the second wave, the NHS has been trying to keep as many of those services going in so far as possible.