Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries.
These privileges usually included a quarter that they maintained as a virtually independent enclave.
The empire of the Baghdad caliphs was disintegrating; its numerous local rulers were virtually independent.
Courland, nominally under Lithuanian suzerainty, developed as a virtually independent state.
When the Vandals arrived in Africa in 429, much of Mauretania became virtually independent.
By 16 Ms. Barry was virtually independent, supporting herself by working nights and weekends as a hospital janitor.
At that time he became virtually independent and founded the dynasty of the nizams (rulers) of Hyderabad.
The sheikh of Al-Fujayrah staged numerous uprisings against Al-Shāriqah, and by 1886 he was a virtually independent ruler.
In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Leinster was virtually independent, under the earls of Kildare.
Especially influential were a few magnate families whose huge estates formed virtually independent fiefdoms, with their own privately armed militias.
If the Katangans backed him, the province could become virtually independent and hard for the rebels to take.
