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Will this strategy be enough to bring lapsed Catholics back into the fold, or to bridge the gap between the largely conservative generation of “John Paul II priests” and younger, more liberal Catholics?

In recent decades, lay managers and workers in the church’s network of schools, hospitals, and social-service providers have largely replaced priests and nuns.

This includes the core leadership of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which is now supported by Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, as much as the ISIS, which is composed largely of non-Syrian fighters who are unconcerned about rebuilding the country or safeguarding its people’s future.

These factors largely explain the Taliban’s violent revival, and the uncertainty of many Afghans about whom to support.

NATO is in Afghanistan largely owing to shared concerns about terrorism.

Sanctions have been less effective in North Korea, largely because the population did not know what it was missing.

The FSF was not a scary creature, and the individual regulators, national and international, were largely left to their own devices, with all of the unhappy consequences with which we have become acquainted.

Europe’s Year of IndecisionNEW YORK – The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic forces, but was largely created by the policies pursued, or not pursued, by world leaders.

Gathering sophisticated intelligence is largely a matter of understanding trends.

Meanwhile, America’s relationship with its traditional Arab allies – the region’s conservative Sunni regimes – is faltering, owing largely to US President Barack Obama’s failure to respond effectively in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Furthermore, with the reforms in limbo, the IMF has been forced to depend largely on loans from its members, rather than the permanent resources called for by the new measures.

And, according to recent ECB statistics, this hope has been largely fulfilled.

This simple rule, largely followed in Eastern Europe in the socialist days, is also popular among European Union bureaucrats in Brussels today.

The so-called “blue-card” process has so far been largely unsuccessful, because there was no incentive for individual states to coordinate their policies.

The war is likely to proceed because the US can carry out the military phase of the war largely on its own, and because the Bush Administration has no easy way to back down from its military mobilization.

But the more the crisis affects them, the more they think largely in national terms.

This process was largely frozen during the five decades of the Cold War.

China, for example, faces increasing export difficulties because of deficient control of the safety of its products, which is largely the result of corruption.

Nonetheless, a new Cold War, even if largely one-sided, would be extremely dangerous for humanity.

The men of the Special Republican Guard are supposed to be loyal because they are recruited largely from Saddam's own al-Bu Nasir tribe around Tikrit.

So far, Western democracies have largely resisted the siren song of xenophobia, and remained broadly faithful to liberal values.

Indeed, it seems that the June Brexit vote has chastened not only Juncker, but all of the Commission’s Europhiles, who have largely been sidelined in the ensuing battle over what Europe will look like.

Instead, that battle has been playing out largely within the European Council, with Merkel assuming a central role.

The Mispriced Risk of Infectious DiseasesNEW YORK – Global business leaders and investors are largely transfixed by two kinds of risk: macroeconomic and geopolitical.

Though the threat is substantial, it is not immediate, so governments continue to pursue other priorities, allowing the threat to grow, largely out of sight.

Unsurprisingly, the wealth effects of monetary easing worked largely for the wealthy, among whom the bulk of equity holdings are concentrated.

The substantive response to the reactionary revival must be to give content to this largely unfulfilled promise.

Germany’s new grand coalition – the third in Merkel’s long chancellorship – is a marriage of convenience: loveless, largely unloved, and devoid of any overarching vision.

The main problem is not just that growth is tepid, but that it is driven largely by debt.

The study’s conclusions applied only to Germany, but its main findings were largely corroborated by a Gallup global survey.

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