Sentence examples for virtually taken over from inspiring English sources

In all these countries the legal and administrative legacy left them by their former masters is virtually taken over intact.

In June, China state television reported that the town had been virtually taken over by macaque monkeys.

In the meantime, Mr. Romney faces a political annoyance in Iowa, where the state Republican Party has been virtually taken over by supporters of Representative Ron Paul of Texas.

It happened in an abandoned building in the Morris Heights section that neighbors said had been virtually taken over in recent months by youths who used it for wild parties and sex.

But foreigners had virtually taken over high-end spots like Maxim, a floating cabaret outside the Cairo Marriott that slips quietly along the Nile for several hours each night.

The effort hit a peak by Thursday, when the site was virtually taken over by headlines assailing Mr. Gingrich, whose advisers said they eventually gave up on trying to persuade the Drudge staff to spare them, acknowledging, in the words of one aide, that "very little can be done".

Temporarily, Mandela virtually took over the role of head of state in successfully appealing for calm.

Hundreds opened donut shops and virtually took over the donut industry in Southern California.

After the family moved to Worcester, Mass., Richard virtually took over the basement to build model planes.

Senator Olympia J. Snowe, for years one of the Senate's most reliable swing votes, watched the Tea Party virtually take over Maine's Republican Party in 2010.

Followers of an obscure Indian guru made national headlines in the 1980s when they virtually took over a small Oregon town and renamed it Rajneeshpuram after their founder.