Sentence examples for Largely exercised from inspiring English sources

No matter how important all three men were, Lord Mandelson informs readers primly, there is an "obvious distinction" between his influence, largely exercised behind the scenes, and that of "Tony, and then Gordon", who each became prime minister.

Conventions, open and unacknowledged, reign alongside statute, with an enfeebled monarchy's significant prerogative powers largely exercised by ministers, and a parliament whose semi-redundant, seemingly aristocratic chamber defers to a notionally sovereign House of Commons, which in turn now appears to bow to the will of the people when expressed in a referendum.

Slavery and gold became profitable for the Europeans; influence was largely exercised through individual settlers and there was no centralised administration and, in the meantime, Portugal had turned her attention to India and Brazil.

Formal planning and forecasting are largely exercises in reading tea leaves.

A lot of people don't know that many of the great discoveries in particle physics are largely exercises in statistical analysis.

He is not happy that "through much of our time in government, my influence was exercised largely behind the scenes".

The latter issue particularly contrasts with physician abstention from participation in executions, in which procedures are relatively public and judicially reviewed, as opposed to solitary confinement, which remains a product of administrative discretion, exercised largely without supervision or checkpoints.

HIEC governing bodies exercised largely independent decision-making authority within their mandate.

Developing during a period of great social and economic upheaval, they exercised power largely through electoral and parliamentary activity.

Mr. Kocherlakota, in the same speech, described the Fed's work as "a largely technocratic exercise that is fundamentally apolitical".

One is largely an exercise in social science, the other an exercise in moral philosophy.