Meanings of virtually unopposed in English

Putin's United Russia party was once virtually unopposed.

French and Malian troops retook the two Saharan trading towns of Timbuktu and Gao at the weekend virtually unopposed.

The second was the vice president himself, Richard Milhous Nixon, who was seeking the Republican nomination and was virtually unopposed.

But it was trailing the opposition Democratic Alliance in Port Elizabeth, which it has previously held virtually unopposed for the last two decades.

It warned that the party which has ruled virtually unopposed since the end of apartheid in 1994 now faced "declining fortunes".

The rich colors displayed the battle of Osaka Castle, in the early seventeenth century, after which Ieyasu Tokugawa was virtually unopposed as shogun of Japan.