"It could continue as a virtual state even though it is a rock under the ocean".
A virtual state of siege has crippled what little is left of the Palestinian economy.
16] that it had shipped 300 tons of TNT to China before the crisis became "a virtual state of war".
They have created a "virtual state," and we have to create an entirely new kind of state to cope with it.
The idea, as Fatah struggles to revitalize its leadership, is to build a virtual state and body politic through acts of popular resistance.
The governor, Flamarion Portela, complains of administering a "virtual state", where half the land is Indian and most of the rest is controlled by a federal agency.
But since the war was with the mobile "virtual state" of terrorism, what was needed was a market state mirroring its tactics.
The promotional material for the program, in the interest of full disclosure, noted, "Currently Ciudad Juárez is under a virtual state of siege".
Most Middle East oil production is controlled by national oil companies that operate as virtual state agencies and coordinate their security needs with the national militaries.
Although the Kurdish safe haven is only a virtual state, it is an incipient democracy, a home of progressive Islamic thought and pro-American feeling.
The result is that the return of more than 4,000 dead Americans from Iraq and Afghanistan has been treated as a virtual state secret.
