Sentence examples for are virtually controlled from inspiring English sources

Local officials in the Zabul province, in the south, told me that, of the eleven districts in the province, eight are virtually controlled by the Taliban.

But, as a June 25 report by the International Crisis Group concluded, it is virtually controlled by Shiite militias.

In the early part of the last century, Spain exercised a vague jurisdiction over the Marshalls, but the German traders filtered in & in 1870 the islands were virtually controlled by a German trading firm, the Jaluit Co.

During this period, malaria was virtually controlled.

Mr. Gallo said players are virtually unapproachable, controlled by publicists and agents.

In particular, its broadcast media remain the only ones in the world that are virtually 100% commercially controlled.

It is demonstrated that the control forces tend to concentrate in the immediate vicinity of the disturbance, and there are virtually no control forces acting at any point of the structure before the arrival of the disturbance.

In recent months, violence has increased significantly in Anbar, a predominately Sunni province that was once virtually controlled by Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

In terms of constitutional values, I think that such controls are virtually indistinguishable from the State's ban on promotional advertising.

Abortion and birth control are virtually taboo issues in most of the mainstream press.The church is influential also in education, from kindergartens to universities.

The article's conclusion is inarguable: Republicans are virtually guaranteed of retaining control of the House because Democrats are highly concentrated in urban areas, while other regions have modest Republican pluralities.