As a result, the eastern tribes there were virtually independent.

These bands were virtually independent of each other in their operations.

Sanders Island was virtually independent and so were the other islands of the archipelago, providing they behaved themselves.

The adobe walls were placed directly on the ground, virtually independent of the wooden construction, and had no supporting role.

He made himself virtually independent ruler of Azerbaijan by 1146.

Roughly, the various kingdoms were to remain virtually independent, but there was to be one great overlord, or emperor.

After the fall of Carthage, the islands seem to have been virtually independent.

Tzikas was already commanding an army, and had been doing so as a virtually independent lord for several years now.

By 1830 Miloš was the internationally accepted ruler of a virtually independent state.

A powerful nobleman who made himself virtually independent in 1817.