Sentence examples for In broad outlines from inspiring English sources

In broad outlines, officials said, the Obama administration favors legislation that would bring illegal immigrants into the legal system by recognizing that they violated the law, and imposing fines and other penalties to fit the offense.

In broad outlines, the Nixon strategy included a phased withdrawal of ground forces from Vietnam, a negotiated settlement saving the Saigon regime, détente with the U.S.S.R., resumption of relations with mainland China, and military support for selected regional powers that permitted them to take over as local "policemen" in lieu of direct American involvement.

In broad outlines, orthoses of pedorthists and orthotists were similar.

Translated, that means they have a view about the way the world works that differs in some important details but not in broad outlines from the view held by a mainstream economist like me -- or, for that matter, Larry Summers.

The new arrangement was also discussed in broad outlines by Gen. George W. Casey Jr., nominated to be the senior American commander in Iraq, who said he understood it was still being negotiated and would be adopted shortly.

A committee news release on Friday that described the bill in broad outlines said that the members had agreed to debate the detainee provisions on the Senate floor and no votes were taken on those provisions on the panel.

Likewise, in broad outline, Romeo and Juliet.

Their idea is, in broad outline, straightforward.

In broad outline, New Yorkers know all this.

In broad outline and in fine detail, the portrait of misrule is complete.

In broad outline, the Dictionary-making story is as well-known as the Johnson story itself.