Sentence examples for was virtually sure from inspiring English sources

But Dr. Willett said he was "virtually sure" the results were universally applicable.

Dr. Walker said she was virtually sure that Massachusetts was the only state to reach the point where more babies were born to women over 30 than under it.

The parents of five-week-old Helaine Colan, Dr. and Mrs. Herman Colan, yesterday decided to "let nature take its course," which physicians said was virtually sure to be death, for the child is afflicted with glioma, a tumor between her eyes and her brain.

Since Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC's former secretary-general, left politics for business last year, Mr Mbeki is virtually sure of being South Africa's next president.

No country will leave itself open to a charge of presumptuousness but many are virtually sure of being in South Africa next summer.

They could not see his face in the dark hallway but by his tight, set way of walking they were virtually sure.

Unless Iran, in coming talks with the United States, agrees to end its nuclear activities, Israeli pilots are virtually sure to rev up their engines.

To be virtually sure of making money from the "rolldown" system, you have to invest large enough sums to minimise the possibility of missing out on prizes due to a possible round of bad luck.

The analysts noted that the rebels were virtually sure to turn down any chance to negotiate under Mr. Uribe's demands: that they first declare a cease-fire and end hostile actions like kidnappings.

They might be virtually sure to lose if the Internal Revenue Service understood how something on Page 1,235 had interacted with something on Page 2,947 and challenged the result, but there is at least a reasonable chance the I.R.S. auditor would not figure it out.

The industry owned the shops, the homes, of course the mines -- and made sure there was virtually no other source of employment in the state.