The re-election of Javier Perez de Cuellar as Secretary General is virtually assured, diplomats said today.
France, the winner of the World Cup in 1998 and always regarding itself as a contender to win it again, is virtually assured of following Anelka out of Africa as soon as it plays its final group match, against South Africa on Tuesday.
In their analysis of about 470,000 Pennsylvania defendants over seven years, Steffensmeier et al. (2016, p. 10) acknowledge that statistical significance is virtually assured: "As such, we place more emphasis on the direction and magnitude of the coefficients than on statistical significance….".
Here, the Award is virtually assured as a posthumous lifetime achievement award.
As things stand now, Mr. Chalabi is virtually assured a prominent position in the Shiite ruling structure.
Receiving the Democratic nomination one day after being named as the Liberal Party candidate, Mr. Meeks is virtually assured of victory in the Feb. 3 special election to succeed Mr. Flake in the heavily Democratic district.
President Obama thinks that if he grabs it, his re-election is virtually assured, just as American political history teaches.
But as he prepares to seek his second stint as president next year — an election he is virtually assured of winning — Chechnya could become a liability.
For weeks now, the statehood vote, slated for Sept. 20, has been producing a mad scramble of last-minute diplomacy, even as most observers acknowledge the outcome of the vote is virtually assured.
In this way, North America has replaced Europe as the center of gravity in the world, and whoever dominates North America is virtually assured of being the dominant global power.
Any interaction partner that appears twice is virtually assured to be a true positive; thus, we treat pairs that interact reproducibly in vitro as true positives.
