Sentence examples similar to a virtually one from inspiring English sources

It also led to the development of a virtually one-party political system; Arkansas returned to the fold of the Democratic Party in 1874, and it remained there for more than a century.

"Contrary to the myth he spun around himself", Mr Segev writes, "he never operated a worldwide dragnet" but ran a virtually one-man show out of a cramped office.Yet Mr Segev also comes to his subject's defence when warranted.

When he made his England debut he did so on virtually one leg; a long-standing knee problem, belatedly diagnosed as patella tendinitis, was threatening to curtail his career.

But on March 6, CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding claimed that Hannah's case was a rare, virtually one-of-a-kind incident with little, if any relevance to the other 4,900 autism claims currently pending in the court -- or to any other case of autism for that matter.(There were conflicting accounts about whether Gerberding was on the call or not).

This would appear to be a statistical tie, but it's a lot easier to beat the market in a strong up market (the past 20 years) than it is in a virtually flat one (the past six years), especially if you're taking on more risk than the market.

The libraries' brief accused Congress of "transforming a limited monopoly into a virtually limitless one".

Mr. Fleischer said today that the task facing the United Nations inspectors was a virtually hopeless one without the active aid of the Iraqi government or defectors with knowledge of the weapons programs.

The transition from a nonsymbolic, nonlinguistic cognitive state to a symbolic, linguistic condition is a virtually unimaginable one.

P. populi emerge in a single pulse, with all the winged fundatrigeniae leaving their galls in virtually one day.

The intercept is not significant and the scaling coefficient is virtually one, which indicates the robustness of the model.

In effect, Mr Livingstone will become a virtually unaccountable one-man planning committee for London a "municipal Bonaparte" according to appalled Tories, who point to the mayor's cosy relationships with property developers.But as Mr Livingstone prepares to campaign for a third term next year, he may be losing his touch.