Sentence examples for has virtual control from inspiring English sources

When one belligerent or the other has virtual control of surface shipping in portions of the seas, he is said to have command of the seas, with the ability both to defend his own sea communications and to deny communications to the enemy.

According to Batozsky, Akhmetov has virtual control of Mariupol's electorate.

When they introduced their device, the partners met strong resistance from AT&T, which then had virtual control over the nation's telephone system and prohibited direct connections to its network.

Smart home automation allows homeowners to have virtual control over everything that consumes energy.

As far as outsiders could judge, he had virtual control over foreign policy despite the nominal leadership of Soviet President Constantine U. Chernenko, who lacked experience in foreign affairs.

Germany now has virtual economic control of Europe, and you can't blame them for it - this is what powers do.

The PRI, which had virtual monopoly control over Mexico's political system for 71 years until it was defeated in 2000, created a legacy of authoritarianism, corruption and cronyism that remains strong in Mexico.

By this time, radical MFA elements and their leftist civilian allies in the Portuguese Communist Party and other Marxist-Leninist groups had won virtual control over the government in Lisbon, sections of the armed forces, and the media.

Although ostracised because of the murder of Gaveston, Thomas of Lancaster had regained virtual control of royal government in the period after Bannockburn.

ISIS militants already control vast swaths of Anbar and have virtual free rein along the Iraqi-Syrian border.

"You will have virtual dials.