Sentence examples for a virtual free from inspiring English sources
The focus on Miller has given Fouts a virtual free pass on widespread public judgment.
The loggers, who local residents say are protected by one of Mexico's most powerful criminal organizations and given a virtual free pass by the country's authorities, had terrorized the community at will for years.
By the mid-70s Savile was presenting the nation's most popular children's television programme Jim'll Fix It and enjoying a virtual free run of five institutions where he had unsupervised access to patients and staff.
After that, the ratings of the debt-ridden country went into a virtual free fall, and within six months Moody's assessed its debt as much riskier for investors, giving it junk status.
Ahmed Musa's pre-game prediction that Manchester City were "very weak" in defence proved all too true as CSKA Moscow enjoyed a virtual free pass around the back of the English champions, particularly in the second half.
They gave a virtual free hand to powerful regional monopolies like Tepco, the firm that operated Fukushima Dai-ichi.Within hours of the blackout that left that plant without the power to cool its reactors, it became clear that there was no comprehensive disaster-management plan.
The result, some say, is a virtual free-for-all of opportunism and self-dealing.
As many as 11 candidates have surfaced in some districts, creating a virtual free-for-all as the city prepares for a tectonic shift in its government.
By contrast, the assembly in Alabama was poised to debate a new bill that would create a virtual free-for-all for gun owners in the state.
Bounded by some of Asia's most vibrant economies — China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Malaysia — the South China Sea has become a virtual free-for-all as nations assert claims to islands and even specks of rock.
Already, offices in the global operation known as Andersen Worldwide are splitting off in a virtual free-for-all of sales to competitors, drastically dimming the prospects that an enterprise assembled over 89 years would survive as a unit, either alone or inside another firm.
