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Unemployment in this part of the country is virtually nonexistent.
It's virtually impossible.
Tom's virtually admitted that it was his fault.
Compared to our house, his is virtually a palace.
Virtually the entire population is infected with one of eight herpes viruses.
The battle was virtually over.
Mary's white bridal gown against the backdrop of the white marble wall virtually made her disappear.
It's virtually impossible for Tom to pass the exam.
The scientific truth of evolution is so overwhelmingly established, that it is virtually impossible to refute.
It is virtually impossible to discuss the Thai Royal Family in English without offending native Thais: the special honorific forms of reference that exist in Thai simply have no counterparts in English.
He never says no when people ask him for something, and because of that, naturally, everybody takes advantage of him for virtually everything.
Movie subtitles
When the new emperor called home Zheng He's mighty navy, he virtually guaranteed that it wouId be the West's version of civilization that would sweep the globe.
The other papers have virtually the same.
Virtually knocked her apart with your own little hands. while a full crew of able seamen stood around sucking their teeth.
But you virtually have a beard. That's even handsomer.
Virtually nothing.
Measures have been taken which render it virtually impossible.
But you certainly must have had some men in mind. when you accuse the general staff of conduct that was virtually treasonable.
A man whose fantastic story. was known to virtually every man, woman and child in the civilised world.
I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more selective than someone who doesn't believe anything.
We are an active part of our defences and we run this ship virtually under wartime conditions.
There were over 8,000 colonists and virtually no food.
The test is virtually infallible.
The reports still don't explain to me, however. how a modern army could be slaughtered. virtually to the last man.
Sir Basil was virtually an employee of yours and he's been murdered.
A test was made, and Rains, who had been appearing in Broadway plays, was signed at virtually the last moment.
But, I confide in you, that we are being held Virtually as prisoners at the Sun Inn. The sum involved is admittedly trifling.
Every civilian in this area is virtually a prisoner.
My dear Lestrade, I accepted this case because I was virtually certain that Colonel Sebastian Moran could not resist such a tempting morsel as the Star of Rhodesia.
If anyone did rob our van, well, it's virtually impossible to dispose of stolen bullion, in this country, at any rate.
Measures have been taken which render it virtually impossible for any substantial quantity of gold to be removed from this country.
Where there's virtually no danger.
Sam, we are virtually blind. All of us.
Gold, gentlemen, which can be melted down and recast, is virtually untraceable, which makes it, unlike diamonds, ideal for smuggling, attracting the biggest and most ingenious criminals.
Factory virtually untouched.
I had to plead, virtually on my knees, with the carpet dealers or there would have been no new carpets for months.
Mind you, our love affair was virtually over.
He's virtually part of the family.
Television can refine into perfection and virtually replace. all the traditional forms of spectacle.
There were over 8000 colonists and virtually no food.
It's strange. Girls like you are virtually prostitutes.
Virtually nothing, captain.
We were virtually hijacked in space and brought here.
That thing is virtually made out of stone.
Dr. McCoy, with very few exceptions, we use virtually every piece of equipment aboard this craft in attaining orbit.
When you jettisoned the fuel and you ignited it, you knew that there was virtually no chance of it being seen, and yet you did it anyhow.
There are entities possessed of extremely long life spans, virtually immortal.
Virtually impossible, captain.
News and current affairs
After a long winter and a non-existent spring, summer started promptly with the first kick-off - and virtually overnight, Germany has flaunted its sunniest and most delightful side.
China, Vietnam, India: all three violated virtually every rule in the neoliberal guidebook, even as they moved in a more market-oriented direction.
Across virtually all the major indicators - including equity and housing price runs-ups, trade balance deficits, surges in government and household indebtedness, and pre-crisis growth trajectories - red lights are blinking for the US.
In the early postwar decades, foreign competition exerted virtually no pressure on the economy, owing to the isolation of America's continental market from the devastation of WWII.
Nor are the non-poor faring particularly well, as wage growth has remained virtually flat for a very long time, even as corporate profits are booming.
But, so far, virtually nothing has been done in this respect.
In searching news archives for the year before the start of these recessions, I found virtually no warning from economists of a severe crisis ahead.
At the same time, the liberalization of FDI regimes by virtually all countries has been a driving force of intra-firm trade - the lifeblood of the emerging system of integrated international production and already around one-third of world trade.
This lack of credit stifled growth, which contributed to the country's economic woes; and now credit has virtually dried up.
If this triangle turned into a quadrangle with the addition of Russia, China would be boxed in from virtually all sides.
The agenda is virtually limitless, including trade and investment, energy and climate change, and confidence-building in the security sphere.
The World Bank was established in 1944 to promote economic development, and virtually every country is now a member.
On virtually every question, British voters are less enthusiastic about the EU than voters in any other country.
To be sure, expropriating Menatep made shares in Yukos - a company that by 2003 attracted more domestic and foreign savings than any other in Russia - virtually worthless.
While sovereign credit quality has deteriorated virtually across the board, and will most probably continue to do so, the implications for individual countries vary.
ADDIS ABABA - Climate change will hit Africa - a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about - first and hardest.
It is virtually certain that many of the MDGs will not have been met by the end of 2015, but there have been striking successes in some areas.
The non-tradable sector, which created virtually all of the new employment in the two decades prior to the crisis, is stagnating, owing to a shortfall in domestic demand and seriously constrained government budgets.
The concept has since been embodied in treaties that virtually every country in the world has ratified.
Crucially for Europe, world trade has been virtually stagnant in recent months.
But it is virtually certain that China will fall short of this threshold in 2009.
Where there has been virtually no progress at all is in the recalibration of the macroeconomic policy mix.
This argument was always emphasized when the Chinese surplus was deemed excessive, but it is virtually ignored when it comes to northern Europe.
While no one is quite certain how the government managed to estimate prices, given that there is virtually nothing for sale in the shops, most indicators suggest that Zimbabwe does have a good shot at breaking world records for inflation.
This requires building and maintaining fair and efficient input and output markets that connect them - as well as larger-scale farmers - physically and virtually to opportunities to increase their incomes.
In contrast to lending activities, banks' commitment to foreign markets has remained virtually unaffected with respect to purely intermediary activities such as investment banking and asset management.