Largely in sentence

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But the recent surge in migration to Europe, driven largely by Syria’s intensifying civil war, has brought Schengen’s shortcomings to the fore.

With Israel’s international standing determined largely by its close relationship with the US, its failure to support the US at such a sensitive moment is highly meaningful – and widely noticed.

But even that limited functionality has lately been obscured, owing largely to Trump’s treatment of multilateral fora not as important mechanisms to coordinate international action, but rather as opportunities to project strength.

Putin views the collapse of the Soviet Union as largely an economic failure, and he recognizes that private property and the market can make the Russian economy more resilient in the face of Western sanctions.

The blame for Libya’s current travails rests largely with the interim government that led the uprising.

They constantly underplayed the extent of the crisis, and tried to sell the idea that Italy had largely been insulated from the global recession.

The greatest successes in fighting global poverty have come from China and India, two countries that have largely pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Last but not least, extremist political movements such as fascism and communism have been largely discredited.

It was the choice of governments to loosen regulations on finance and aim for full cross-border capital mobility, just as it was a choice to maintain these policies largely intact, despite a massive global financial crisis.

Consumption growth has been driven largely by Russia’s integration into the global economy – and cannot be sustained without it.

But, given that most major economies operate under a flexible exchange-rate regime, these concerns are largely unwarranted.

In search of higher yields, investors took that liquidity – largely in the form of short-term speculative capital (“hot” money) – to emerging markets, putting upward pressure on their exchange rates and fueling the risk of asset bubbles.

Employees learned in the experiments that employers largely could be trusted to give such bonuses as a reward for hard work, even though no one could hold them formally accountable if they selfishly refused.

Disappointing export performance is largely responsible for the recent weakening of economic-growth prospects.

The frontal sectors, left almost unguarded, were largely overrun.

This will depend largely on whether German Chancellor Angela Merkel can form a coalition government and restore political stability to Europe’s largest economy.

This last component is largely rhetoric; it is hard to imagine any Mexican already in the US voluntarily returning to, say, Zacatecas to wait patiently in line for a new visa.

Beyond that, what happens is largely up to Putin.

Perhaps Trump thought that naming a black man to lead the dismantling of public housing, which largely supports African Americans, would be good cover.

That association helped the SCO – still largely a Sino-Russian enterprise – to receive more publicity, but it left the BRIC countries with little space to start formulating a unified action plan.

Official media initially attributed the disaster largely to the “malicious” short-selling of Chinese shares by foreign banks and traders.

Whether reform momentum is maintained will depend largely on whether the government recognizes that the crash was the result of a regulatory failure, or remains adamant that it was the work of some nefarious foreign force, determined to destroy the Chinese economy.

The world has largely deserted Taiwan and its 23 million people – the only democracy among 1.2 billion Chinese.

The EU has suffered a prolonged economic slump since the 2008 financial crisis, largely because the German government vetoed the kind of monetary and fiscal stimulus that helped to pull the US out of recession in 2010.

Trump’s Trade IllogicLONDON – With all the public attention in the United States focused on health care, immigration, and Russia, the Trump administration’s trade policies have flown largely under the radar.

American policy is based overwhelmingly on the idea that Africa can lift itself out of extreme poverty through its own efforts, that aid is largely misused because of corruption, and that the United States already gives generous amounts.

Latin America has largely avoided the geopolitics and wars that have plagued other parts of the world.

Like the NATO common fund, EU contributions are largely based on GDP.

Likewise, enrollment in private schools – largely low-cost institutions – exceeds 40% in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda.

By contrast, labor in the EU is largely immobile.

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