Sentence examples for he virtually ran from inspiring English sources

For well over a decade he virtually ran its British operation and then built up its delegation in Scotland.

It said he virtually ran the school in the 1970's, controlling admissions, hiring and firing staff members, even driving the bus.

After arriving in space, she virtually ran the Aug. 12 Falmouth Road Race, a seven-mile race run in Falmouth, Mass., as part of her training regimen for the triathlon.

Serving officers can no longer hold the political and administrative positions through which they virtually ran much of the country.

(In time of war, which was a lot of the time, their network was so indispensable that they virtually ran the country).

He was known as the "de facto mayor" and virtually ran the Harbor Commission and the Los Angeles Police Department, going so far as to transfer personnel without bothering to consult the police chief.

Thereafter this vein virtually ran dry for 250 years.

After Hamid Karzai became president in 2002, his half brother Ahmed Wali virtually ran the southern provinces for him.

The supply of BZ virtually ran out — even to intoxicate just eight men who were running in place, to insure that they breathed in enough, on a vehicle that was moving with the cloud.

As for the ungrateful Blair, Murdoch had "virtually put him in office" in 1997, the Vanity Fair article claimed, and "from 1997 to 2007 the two men virtually ran Great Britain".

Except for one bloody Friday in early June, government forces had stayed on the city's outskirts, while protesters virtually ran the city, protecting it with a ring of barricades.