"I had one person who got no margin transferred and was virtually wiped out.
A bill ending rent controls became law last week, and was virtually cut dead by the Labour Party leaders.
I explained that I had two daughters in intensive care and was virtually living at the hospital.
Guinea Bissau offered a backdoor route into the booming European cocaine market and was virtually risk free on account of its weak, easily corruptible government agencies.
Although there is evidence of divorce in early Indian history, by the Gupta period marriage was solemnized by lengthy sacred rites and was virtually indissoluble.
In 1996 Hanauer who had suffered numerous injuries throughout his career and was virtually unable to speak for several years left the sport.
When he was pressed to become the president of the European Council, he had led Belgium for less than a year and was virtually unknown abroad.
The main opposition Labour Party did not do as well as had been predicted and was virtually wiped out in Scotland by a resurgent Scottish National Party.
Crowned in 1855 at the death of Kamehameha III, he became a popular monarch and was virtually an idol to the Hawaiian people.
Then Britain lost a whole generation of empire-builders during the First World War, and was virtually bankrupted by the Second.
At the general election the following year, the party won 564,000 votes, but failed to win any seats and was virtually bankrupted in the process.
