for all intents and purposes

The two women — complete strangers, for all intents and purposes — are jittery around each other until they discover how much they have in common.

Dog racing was killed by ballot initiative in Florida and the other sports are, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.

This was, for all intents and purposes, a nightmare matchup for USC on paper.

“Things are very different now. Things evolved during the period of time that I was there where the police commissioners, for all intents and purposes, provided a rubber stamp,” he said in the deposition.

When someone did find their way into one of the street-wide corrals serving as a line, they were, for all intents and purposes, on their own in a sea of people.