"virtual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The interest-rate spike worked, but at the price of a virtual freeze in new lending to business.
- There has been a virtual freeze on American arms transfers since last fall, largely because of the Persian Gulf conflict.
- Mr. Dole termed the proposal for a 2 percent increase in Social Security adjustments "less onerous and more reasonable" than the virtual across-the-board freeze that he had previously suggested.
- The virtual freeze on high tech shipments to all but the highest priority bases was beginning to tell in more ways than one.
- Perhaps the biggest change is that both Congress and the Administration are living under a virtual freeze on new spending because of last year's balanced-budget agreement.
- Operators, they said, had placed a virtual freeze on new channels since the regulations were adopted.
- Nurses, teachers and others at the bottom end of the wage scale will get rises of no more that 1 per cent- a virtual freeze.
- Officials at the affected agencies said he would propose a virtual freeze for the National Science Foundation and a very small increase for the National Institutes of Health.
- That taxpayer revolt helped sweep Gov. Whitman into power last year and last spring she imposed a virtual freeze on state education aid.
- Mr. Bush will call for a virtual freeze on spending for nondefense discretionary programs.
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