Sentence examples for virtually controlling from inspiring English sources

After the fall of Pagan (1287) to the invading Mongols, the Mon, under Wareru, regained their independence and captured Martaban and Pegu, thus virtually controlling their previously held territory.

Some say more than 1,000 of them have been killed in the past six months or so.The main opposition fighting group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), a fearsomely jihadist Sunni group, has made steady inroads, virtually controlling a swathe of territory between Baghdad and the border with Syria, where it seeks to establish a caliphate eventually encompassing the entire region.

Unlike traditional VR systems in which users are pinned to a single spot in their virtual environment Virt lets viewers virtually control where they walk through the corridors of a store's interior.

They virtually control the global economy.

Mr. Wasserman virtually controlled the radio business, advancing his clients on network shows.

By September 1970 the PLO virtually controlled a state within a state.

Thereafter, until his dismissal from office in 1843, Mizuno virtually controlled the government.

Al-Shabab is now deeply entrenched and, with the help of foreign jihadists, virtually controls all southern Somalia.

Pardoned by Edward II in 1313, Lancaster forced changes in the royal household in 1314 and by 1315 virtually controlled England.

The shooting came as Peshawar, one of Pakistan's biggest cities, is increasingly threatened by the Taliban, who virtually control the nearby tribal areas.

Morton Bahamas virtually controls this island of 1,200 people, who are themselves vastly outnumbered by wild donkeys, wild cattle and feral hogs.