Sentence examples for virtually barred from inspiring English sources

Tamils require an end to the discrimination that has virtually barred them from holding jobs in the army and police.

Ms. Guzzanti, who has been for years virtually barred from television in Italy, says Italian democracy is at stake.

Ethnic Chinese citizens were forced to take Indonesian names and were virtually barred from politics, the military and government service.

Because Mexican law prohibits any kind of foreign investment in the country's oil industry, international oil companies are virtually barred from working in Mexico.

— Posted by DonO More Comments | Read Tuesday Posts These Stairs Were Made for Walking "So this is the great irony of this initiative: The mayor wants to encourage people to take the stairs, but New York City employees are virtually barred from doing so! … The stairs can only be used for emergencies.

Each image, including the epithelium and lamina propria, was virtually barred (150 × 200 mm), and the three subfields closer to the epithelium were then evaluated to enable a more specific analysis of the subepithelial region of the conjunctiva, and not of its lamina propria in each slide.

"You may argue that only two or three nominees are allowed for us to choose, thus virtually barring any chance for a pro-democracy candidate to be considered.

Chapman – a cheery man with much to be legitimately cheery about, which is itself cheering – basically picked them up, shook the worst of the city grime off them and put them to work, building their third and breakthrough album virtually bar by bar.

The rift widened last month over a so-called personhood amendment in Mississippi that would have barred virtually all abortions by giving legal rights to embryos.

But China's global image took a drubbing after Tibetan dissidents beamed images of violence to the outside world from cellphone cameras, and officials barred virtually all foreigners from entering the supposedly peaceful region.

Under a barrage of international and domestic criticism, the top American commander in Iraq has barred virtually all coercive interrogation practices, like forcing prisoners to crouch for long periods or depriving them of sleep, the Pentagon said Friday.