Purging Tyranny's Apparatus: President Gorbachev said the governing board of the K.G.B. had been virtually disbanded and its military units reassigned to the army.

America has virtually disbanded its intelligence system, and so shackled and exposed what is left that it is powerless.

The group then virtually disbanded for some years, but reformed for various live dates in the 2000s.

During the occupation of France the country's aviation industry was virtually disbanded.

He argues against "the notion that if one House vote had gone the other way, the Army would have been virtually disbanded by the time Japan struck."

Though there was a few years of enthusiasm and a restructuring in 1866, by 1870 the force was virtually disbanded.

Mr. Hart has ruled out re-entering the Presidential race and his staff has been virtually disbanded.

When placed on the Supplementary Order of Battle, a regiment is considered "virtually disbanded", and will only be reformed should the need be dire.

The Portuguese, who valued their strategic Indian colonial outposts, were unwilling to negotiate and by 1948, the Goan freedom movement had virtually disbanded.

The orchestra virtually disbanded in 1962 when Ismael Rivera was arrested for drug possession in Panama.