That term has been so chronically overused in the last twelve months - to describe the economy, individual banks, various members of the Euro and certain politicians - that it has virtually lost its meaning.
The Austro-German offensive of 1915, planned by Conrad, succeeded, but by this time the Austrian army had become increasingly subordinated to the German General Staff and had virtually lost its independence.
Once a pejorative term, metrosexuality has virtually lost its meaning as men all over the world, in cities and rural areas, now show interest in looking good.
For 1,3-fluorohydrins, the cis isomer 5 had a dramatically decreased H-bond acidity, with the hydroxy group virtually losing its ability to act as a H-bond donor.
The canonical BFL1ΔC R88D variant totally retained such autonomous membrane-permeabilizing activity, whereas the equivalent canonical BAX R109D mutant virtually lost all of it (Fig. S4c).
In this Sunday's election, very few immigrants will have a vote.Porous bordersIn the early 1990s, after communism collapsed and Yugoslavia descended into war, Greece virtually lost control of its borders.
The vowel ae is no longer kept distinct from e in southern Korea and the distinction is virtually lost in modern Seoul, though it is maintained in the spellings.
For the American electronics industry, which has virtually lost the entire memory market to low-cost Japanese competitors, it was a rare, if fleeting, moment of glory.
The inking alone, and the steadiness of hand it requires, takes years of training: skills that have been virtually lost in the age of the computer.
