Largely in sentence

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Largely through politics, a more inclusive sense of “us” developed.

Moreover, though the US unemployment rate has fallen, this largely reflects an alarming decline in labor-force participation, with more than 6.5 million Americans since 2006 having given up looking for work.

Foremost among these is that economic development is largely in the hands of poor nations themselves.

China and India, today’s two economic superstars, have prospered largely through sui generis reform efforts.

When World War II ended in 1945, Japan and Russia did not sign a peace treaty, owing largely to their competing claims over the Southern Kuril Islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories.

Despite all of these tensions, Asia has remained largely at peace, partly because no country has wanted to jeopardize economic growth by initiating a conflict.

But this, too, is largely irrelevant.

As a result, China will become a largely inward-looking superpower, which – precisely for that reason – will pursue its foreign-policy interests in a completely unsentimental manner.

Otherwise, the rapid and fundamental transformation of the country from a largely agrarian to an ultra-modern industrialized society could not proceed without destabilizing the system.

A report by the JPMorgan-Chase Institute concludes that platform jobs are largely a secondary source of income, used to offset dips in regular income.

For starters, national politics in key countries is largely moving away from cooperation, with rising inequality and social fragmentation making it difficult for governments, especially in democracies, to make tough decisions.

Equally problematic, the world has largely failed to learn from globalization’s most obvious and far-reaching consequence yet: the 2008 financial crisis.

The marginal return and marginal cost are reduced proportionately, leaving investment largely unchanged.

But global growth is largely unchanged – the distributive effects actually impede it slightly – as one gains at the expense of the other.

But a pragmatic version of “America first,” focused on achieving re-election in 2020, is more likely to mean some largely symbolic measures (such as antidumping tariffs on some Chinese steel imports) and abandonment of further trade liberalization initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

The Roma suffered disproportionately after the collapse of communism in 1989, as they worked largely in unskilled industrial jobs that were the first to be cut.

Models of MadnessMental health services around the world are largely based on the assumption that being upset or disoriented is a sort of condition like medical illnesses.

The European Union’s economy is sliding into a severe and, in all likelihood, long-lasting recession, largely self-inflicted.

But over the last ten years, that surplus has pretty much disappeared, and the renminbi has largely been appreciating.

Pigs, Calves, and American DemocracyAmidst all the headlines about the Democrats gaining control of the United States Congress in the November elections, one big election result was largely ignored.

This means that the barriers that EU negotiators are in a position to impose – which largely affect trade in goods – are likely to have a much smaller impact than the UK-imposed barriers, such as quotas on EU workers.

While overall trade in services is unlikely to suffer enormously from Brexit – the internal market for services never worked all that well, anyway – finance constitutes a special case, largely because of the passporting arrangements for banks.

Economic sanctions on Russia may eventually hurt, and the Kremlin may desist from further encroachment; but the Ukrainian crisis is largely impervious, in the short term, to outside involvement.

During his first two terms, Putin was a strong source of hope, owing largely to the rapid increase in Russians’ incomes.

And the National Agency for Financial Studies reports that only 2% of Russians are prepared to take on a mortgage, owing largely to the uncertainty that plagues the market.

It is likely to take the form of an opaque global credit glut, turbocharged by the fragile mixture of too-big-to-fail global banking with a huge and largely unwatched and unregulated shadow banking sector.

But there’s a hitch: the easy monetary policies that have largely enabled economies to return to growth are reaching their limits, and now threaten to disrupt the recovery by creating the conditions for another financial crisis.

Indeed, while a parliamentary system can work in a small, largely homogenous country, in India’s large, diverse, and fractious polity, it has been messy, to say the least.

But another crucial issue – that of long-term investment financing – was largely neglected, even though the endgame for unconventional monetary policy will require the revitalization or creation of new long-term assets and liabilities in the global economy.

Unfortunately, such programs largely lack the visibility and influence needed to shape educational reform.

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