Sentence examples for remains virtual from inspiring English sources

Secretive billionaire remains virtual recluse on remote Pacific island, holed up with small core of longtime associates, known only by code names like "Professor" and "Skipper".

What made physicians sign on to such a violation of the sanctity of human remains, virtual or otherwise?

Speaking by phone from a Beijing hospital room where he remains under virtual house arrest, Chen Guangcheng said on Thursday that it remained unclear whether he, his wife and their two children would be able to leave China shortly after getting their passports.

He remains in virtual house detention, prohibited from travelling outside Beijing.

Guinness remains a virtual national symbol, despite being owned by the international conglomerate, Diageo.

And while the country is, economically, more liberal than ever, politically it remains a virtual police state.

Congress delayed its vote, and then Mr. Zelaya renounced the agreement and remains a virtual prisoner in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital.

And I was making astronomical gains that brought me, sometimes, a really great pleasure… Overall what we do remains very virtual.

She remains "a virtual prisoner" in her home there, the suit says, "constantly fearful of eventual detection," with her mental health deteriorating.

Though about seven million people have watched Ms. Silverman's four-minute Web video explaining why "visiting your grandparents could change the world," the schlep remains mostly virtual.

Trying to find oil and accurately estimating its volume is supremely challenging in the best of cases, but in the Arctic it remains a virtual impossibility.