Sentence examples for virtually given up from inspiring English sources

"I'd virtually given up - I didn't think it would ever happen," he says.

Real has neglected the Spanish league and virtually given up on defending its domestic title against the superior Barcelona.

It was Burton, too, who gave Gough one of his last roles, at a point when he had virtually given up acting.

In contrast to Torres, Liverpool have virtually given up on Javier Mascherano and are likely to sell him to Barcelona this summer.

He has virtually given up any pretence he might recommend Britain leave Europe and he polls as the single most persuasive politician in a referendum.

Denise and Mike Mulica of Evanston, Ill., have virtually given up on getting to their Martha's Vineyard home during the summer, preferring the off-season.

They are virtually giving up on investigations for burglary and any kind of theft".

MI5 virtually gave up its counter subversion activities in the mid-1980s afthe the miners' strike to concentrate first on Northern Ireland and, later, on countering Islamist-inspired terrorism.

In late September the Badoglio government signed a "Long Armistice," which virtually gave up military and political control over Italy, as well as control of the mass media and financial institutions, to the Allies.

However, in 1928, Lukács had to virtually give up his political activities after he presented the so-called "Blum theses" (see 1928).

After that loss, EPA virtually gave up the effort to ban harmful chemicals.