"virtual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Portugal itself was ruled as a virtual British protectorate.
- Instead, he negotiated an unofficial treaty which made Saragossa subject to Castile and Leon, and established the Caliphate as a virtual protectorate of Alfonso's kingdom.
- The Austrian leaders blamed the Serbian government for the assassination and demanded a virtual protectorate over Serbia, issuing Serbia a list of demands.
- In Egypt the Jews had to take sides in the hostilities between the various factions which competed for whatever power was left under the virtual protectorate of Rome.
- Muscat and Oman came under increasing British domination and in 1891 became a virtual British protectorate.
- The Platt Amendment (1902), however, established Cuba as a virtual protectorate of the United States.
- The result was that a virtual Japanese protectorate was created over Macau.
- The international officials who have run Bosnia as a virtual protectorate since the West forced a peace deal in 1995 are eager to scale back their presence here soon.
- This made it by 1943 a virtual protectorate, with Japanese consul Fukui Yasumitsu controlling all contact until 1945 with the Portuguese governor, Gabriel Maurício Teixeira.
- After Russia's defeat in that war, Korea became a virtual protectorate of Japan, which eventually annexed it in 1910.
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