When he was younger, he had accepted the fact that she virtually ruled him without a thought.

We are virtually ruled by the aristocracy again now.

The Dutch virtually ruled Malabar for a period of 135 years.

He virtually ruled the country through figurehead presidents from 1978 to 1989, when France negotiated his departure.

Experts believed the crash to be due to pilot error, and sabotage was virtually ruled out of the investigation.

Pears, 30, virtually ruled himself out of the crucial Wolves game when he said: 'Time is against me.

Later on, the Parsis, who migrated from Iran, virtually ruled this small town.

However, these elections were considered fraudulent, especially on the part of the military dictatorship that virtually ruled El Salvador.

The United States Congress voted nine years later to grant them eventual independence, and from that point on the people virtually ruled themselves.

Although Santa Cruz approved a democratic constitution, he ruled virtually as a dictator and did not tolerate opposition.