Largely in sentence

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The G-20, the International Monetary Fund, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision have been largely sideshows.

Even in Europe, where regional institutions are comparatively strong, it is national interest and national policymakers, largely in the person of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who have dominated policymaking.

This shift has so far gone largely unnoticed by governments, a reflection of just how disconnected they are from their own people.

Already, 240 million Arabs – largely young people – have access to the Internet through mobile phones; by 2020, it is estimated that all Arab youth will be connected.

A glance at any EU member state’s parliamentary calendar shows that lawmaking there is largely confined to domestic issues.

Of course, trade is just one of many factors driving economic growth, which has been strong in the US this year, largely owing to late-cycle fiscal stimulus.

This is tied to a way of thinking and a sense of knowing that is largely contemplative and sometimes even disempowering, as reality comes to seem to be whatever resists our concerted efforts at change.

(Germany’s domestic spending was significantly higher in the 1990s, but that was largely the result of German reunification, and was not sustainable.)

His campaign in Ukraine has largely achieved its main goals;Russia has wrested control of Crimea and destabilized large portions of the rest of the country.

Since Putin first became president in 2000, Russia’s political, economic, and social stability has been largely restored.

Rather than pursuing their own interests, foreign-funded organizations have largely based their actions on concern for Russia and its citizens, and on the belief that what is good for Russia is good for the rest of the world.

Although Sandy, at its peak, was only a post-tropical cyclone when it hit the US, its winds spanned an area of 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles), leading to extreme storm surges and waves that decimated the Jersey Shore, flattening communities and destroying the casinos and boardwalks on which the local economy largely depends.

Today, unskilled services remain largely off the agenda.

Maoist dogma in China has been largely replaced by something called “patriotic education,” manifested in school textbooks, history museums, and an assortment of monuments.

But perhaps the quintessential example of this phenomenon was the origin in the early 1970s of recombinant DNA technology (also known as “genetic modification,” or “GM”), the prototypic technique of modern genetic engineering, which resulted from synergy among several esoteric, largely unrelated areas of basic research.

High Tariffs on Chinese Imports Would Weaken AmericaBEIJING – Until the 1970s, the United States’ foreign trade was largely balanced.

Although the responsibility of industrialized countries and emerging economies in the battle against carbon emissions is now well known, Africa’s place in the climate agenda has been largely neglected.

Zenawi has largely escaped sanction from his Western allies, in part because the erudite ex-Marxist had a friendly relationship with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and cooperated closely with the Bush administration in counter-terrorism efforts in the Horn of Africa.

After more than two decades of largely fruitless debate, during which CO2 emissions have continued to rise, another failed summit will trigger a profound crisis for international climate diplomacy, forcing its proponents either to change the rules of the game or accept that it cannot be won.

In developed countries, preventing rabies largely requires controlling and immunizing wildlife populations, which has proved effective in Switzerland and Germany.

Unfortunately, his request was largely ignored.

For decades, political debate in Europe focused largely on economic institutions and policies.

In each of these areas -- physics, biochemistry and social science -- the theories are mature and largely uncontroversial.

Not surprisingly, this pattern has been slow to emerge in the current cycle, largely owing to an unusually weak post-crisis economic recovery.

Japan is a net creditor and largely finances its debt domestically.

Two stand out: a largely uncorrupt, efficient, transparent, and accountable government, and an open and competitive economy.

Public accountability, government transparency, and official integrity remain largely slogans.

It was less a global order than a group of like-minded countries, largely in the Americas and Western Europe, which comprised less than half of the world.

Second terms can often be productive times for US foreign policy, largely because presidents cannot seek a third.

Austerity programs have been largely counterproductive, generating vicious cycles of slow or no growth, business closures, skyrocketing unemployment, and tax-base erosion.

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