Capital punishment has virtually gone in Europe (only Belarus still uses it, most recently in July).
It was an admission that on eastern Long Island the tradition-steeped occupation of bayman -- plying the inshore waters for fish or shellfish, whatever's in season -- has virtually gone the way of the blacksmith.
In zooming in on the time of Haremhab, the military chief who wielded immense power before ruling as a pharaoh from around 1316 to 1302 B.C., Ms. Arnold's exhibition brings out an aspect of Egyptian art that has virtually gone unnoticed.
(Of course you rarely hear these same men talk about how chivalry has virtually gone by the way-side).
In today's world of 24-7 news, investigative journalism has virtually gone by the wayside and viewers' memories of the resumes of influencers they see on television dissipate into the here and now--because that's what counts in the truthiness society.
Puerto Rico also ranked high on the scale because its pension fund for public workers is so depleted that it has virtually become a pay-as-you-go plan, meaning each year's payments to retirees are essentially coming out of the budget each year.
States that have virtually collapsed, he went on, like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Somalia, are breeding grounds of instability, mass migration and murder as well as terrorism.
Yet voters trying to determine the potential impact of a newly uncovered trove of emails that may or may not implicate Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have virtually nothing to go on other than reports sourced to anonymous law enforcement officials with differing agendas.
If the court comes up with too broad a reading of that phrase, prosecutors could have virtually limitless power to go after even mundane activities -- like a lawmaker who makes a phone call on behalf of her constituent, or an official who arranges a meeting with donors to hear their concerns.
