Sentence examples for was virtually killed from inspiring English sources

Iran's pop music industry is undergoing a revival, three decades after it was virtually killed off by the Islamic Revolution.

When the unfortunate players enter territory held by Chinese hackers, they are virtually killed and less virtually robbed.

A1 was a beacon of the free media, they say, and now it has been virtually killed off for its criticism of Mr Gruevski.

"For the last 12 years, you are virtually killing him every day".

"If you have zero tolerance, in many instances you are virtually killing the priest," said Sister Camille.

The lawyer for an Assamese murderer says of these repeated, last-minute postponements: "You are virtually killing him every day .India has imposed a near-moratorium on capital punishment since the Supreme Court ordered in 1983 that it be used only for the "rarest of rare" cases.

If you move a 10 onto a Jack that's a different suit, you're virtually killing it.

The funny thing was, he virtually killed the joke because he had to explain, "Okay, record players came with this plastic casing, and to play a record, first you had to lift up the casing to expose the turntable".

The name of van Gogh was virtually unknown when he killed himself: only one article about him had appeared during his lifetime.

And if that was foolhardy, Romney's decision on Wednesday morning to double down — this after the news emerged that Stevens and three other consulate officials had been killed — was virtually inexplicable.

Indeed, even the intense innate immune response induced by exposure of macrophages to killed MPV was virtually completely silenced in cells infected with the live virus.