Sentence examples for virtually clean from inspiring English sources

The right-wing Reform party swept the west, taking 54 seats, and split the vote in Ontario, giving the Liberals a virtually clean sweep there, while further east the separatists of the Bloc Québécois triumphed.

Presidential outcomes aside, Republicans won a virtually clean sweep, from what should have been a closely contested US Senate race, to the governor's house, down to the county commissioners.

Not so the innocents who will miss their connecting flights and spend much of their holiday weekend sitting on virtually clean airport linoleum.

He argued that the 1992 spill Mr. King discovered was a new spill and that it was virtually cleaned up when another leak occurred 1994 in the gas station's underground lines.

The judge told Mr. Caceres that if he completed a rehabilitation program and stayed out of trouble for six months, he would avoid prison and his record would be virtually wiped clean.

But time and again, as the lawyers examined the computers in hopes of downloading information that would help them understand the events surrounding the Enron collapse, they found disk drives that had been virtually wiped clean of every e-mail message that had ever been downloaded.

Sierra Leone is one of the poorest African countries in terms of infrastructure; devastated by a 10-year civil war that finished a decade ago, electricity is scarce and there is virtually no clean water – this year nearly 300 people died in the worst cholera outbreak in the country's recent history.

"Come the local elections and it's virtually a clean sweep for the independence party, year-in, year-out".

"Asia's rising 'clean technology tigers' - China, Japan, and South Korea - have already passed the United States in the production of virtually all clean energy technologies and over the next five years will out-invest the U.S. three-to-one in these sectors..

Despite that sullied reputation, it may come as a shock to many to learn that, in 1966, the American military accidentally dropped four atomic bombs on Spain but managed to minimize the incident to the extent that it's been virtually washed clean from history.

The Department of Interior has stated that there is a 75% chance of an oil spill in the Arctic once drilling commences, a spill which experts say would be virtually impossible to clean up, posing unacceptable risks to indigenous peoples and the marine environment.