But in the modern version of Formula One that was expanding around the world, virtually all of the new races had come about thanks to funding by local governments.
Amazon's virtual voice assistant Alexa can go virtually anywhere thanks to Amazon's Gadgets API, but her next destination is still kind of surprising: It'll (sort of) end up in Big Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic talking fish that you may have seen adorning the walls of the homes of people you don't like.
In fact, it virtually has, thanks to guitarist Nick Valensi's intriguing attitude to the promotional interview.
In two superb cameos, they prove themselves virtually unbeatable thanks to just about the best of Tarantino's lines.
No matter where the various groups are based, he says, every dissident from Krakow to Kiev is virtually connected thanks to social media.
Or consider a deeply revealing remark by Trump that went virtually unnoticed, thanks to the frequency with which the New York billionaire has made scandalous statements.
Acapulco, which caters mainly to domestic tourists, has virtually emptied thanks to frequent shootings in the heart of the hotel zone.Many of the roughest areas are in the north, where foreign investment is concentrated.
The cushy surpluses once projected for the next few years have virtually disappeared, thanks to income-tax cuts, depressed tax revenues and billions in unexpected spending on disaster relief, domestic security and the war in Afghanistan.
The hulking Austrian had previously been considered virtually uncastable thanks to his preposterous frame and thick Styrian accent, but along with John Milius, whose film Conan the Barbarian hit cinemas two years earlier, Cameron worked out that it was only necessary to find freakily eccentric roles for the oversized actor to introduce the world to perhaps the biggest star of the 1980s.
Telemarketing calls virtually stopped thanks to Google's global spam filtering option, which blocks calls from numbers identified as spam.
