Sentence examples for virtually ensuring that from inspiring English sources

And ESPN was able to switch one of its low-rated October games into tonight's time slot, virtually ensuring that it will attract a larger audience than usual.

Only one first-round pick -- quarterback Michael Vick of Atlanta -- has signed so far, virtually ensuring that there will be holdouts at some camps.

Levi Strauss & Company said today that second-quarter results lagged expectations, virtually ensuring that it would suffer its fifth consecutive year of declining sales.

Virtually ensuring that "Hell and Back Again" will never see widespread release, Mr. Dennis graphically depicts an Afghan soldier — cut in half by a mine — being lifted into a body bag as his corpse disintegrates in front of the camera.

Mr. Burke's political foes said he wields power through an old-school system of using political foot soldiers to field constituent requests for city services, virtually ensuring that only political supporters and longtime residents get help.

That would yoke the C.F.T.C., which has been an effective and timely proponent of international rules, to the weak and tardy S.E.C., virtually ensuring that strong rules would not get done soon, if ever.

Those transitional species must have existed (Archaeopteryx establishes that much insofar as bird evolution is concerned), but the sheer rapidity of the evolutionary transition in marginal environments virtually ensures that good sequences of transitional fossils will remain hard to come by, or so Simpson reasoned.

This virtually ensures that cuts will be necessary again and again.

The setup of the contest virtually ensured that no unapologetic ode to meat would win.

The upward revisions in gross domestic product virtually ensure that workers were even more productive than previous data suggested.

This development virtually ensured that future candidates would include a social networking presence as part of their media strategies.