Sentence examples for virtually on a par from inspiring English sources

In those closely matched battles the quality of U.S. and Japanese aviators and their planes was virtually on a par.

June 2005 Boost for campaign as IOC evaluation commission issue report ranks the technical bids of London, Paris and Madrid virtually on a par.

Lithuanian, the native tongue of 3 million people, continues to fascinate and sustain him, as it is "not only archaic, but rich and sonorous, virtually on a par with the Greek of Homer and Aeschylus.

The lower borrowing rates that came with the introduction of the euro meant "countries like Italy became virtually on a par with Germany in terms of interest rates," she said.

Flanker Sam Cane has grown in confidence and ability with each game, No.8 Kieran Read has been hugely impressive and led from the front as the stand-in captain, while flyhalf Aaron Cruden is virtually on a par with Carter now.

Democrats will be virtually on a par with Republicans on Capitol Hill and won't long resist the charge that Bush's is not a morally legitimate Presidency and will seek either to tie Bush's hands or to bend him to their will.

This is greater coverage than for a similar map for free-ranging red deer (Cervus elephus, 39% [ 3]) and almost on a par with one for Soay sheep (Ovis aries, 90% [ 4]) for which virtually all genetic resources developed for domestic sheep can be used.

Many members of the electorate may have difficulty appreciating the magnitude of the wrong-headedness as well as rudeness of the remarks of these presidential contenders because of the one-sidedness of virtually all of the "reporting" on China, treating it as almost on a par with North Korea.

An exhibition of her images from the photographic archive of the American Academy in Rome is at City University's Graduate Center in Midtown, and it firmly establishes this virtually unknown photographer as a master on a par with Francis Frith, Henri Le Secq, Felix Teynard and James McDonald.

Functions and arguments are on a par with one another.

They were rated by interviewers who had met them as virtually on par with their white counterparts in their personal qualities.