6 sentences with 'virtual'
Example sentences and phrases with the word virtual and other words derived from it.
• « A technological breakthrough under study, virtual colonoscopy, could make previous methods of colon exploration obsolete, according to radiologist David Vining of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. »
• « Rome struggled with a situation analogous to that of Athens, in which the rich not only had a virtual monopoly of political power, but in many cases had the legal right to enslave or at least extract labour from debtors. »
• « As the ideas of the Enlightenment spread and the groups that made up the Third Estate of commoners became increasingly resentful of their subservient political position, a virtual powder keg was igniting beneath the political structure of Europe. The subsequent explosion began in France in 1789. »
• « The other raw material, cotton, which played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, was available through slave labour in the American South and from weaker states such as Egypt (which gained virtual independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1833). »
• « From 1923 to 1930, a general named Primo de Rivera acted as a virtual dictator (with the support of the king) trying to drag Spain into the 20th century by building dams, roads and sewers. »
• « In 1921, centuries of Irish rebellions, crushed in blood by the British, seemed to come to a head when Ireland won virtual independence from Britain and became the Irish Free State. »