Sentence examples for Largely sanctioned from inspiring English sources

Some people and their descendants became wealthy because of the misery and unpaid labor of others, under a system that was largely sanctioned by the United States government.

When three of France's biggest banks plunged into a heated takeover battle last year, the battle was largely sanctioned and guided by the Ministry of Finance, which wanted to consolidate the nation's banks and keep out foreign bidders.

When Bin Laden lists the various locations around the world - Chechnya, Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, the Philippines - where Muslims have been the victims of violence that has been largely sanctioned or ignored by the international community, he makes a case that, as Anonymous says, is at the very least plausible.

She argues that popular death rituals, which lie largely outside the sanctioned practices of the Catholic Church, establish and reinforce an ethical view of the world in which the dead remain with the living and in which the poor (as opposed to the privileged classes) do right by one another and their dead.

Kirk sessions, however, continued to meet largely unhindered, neither sanctioned nor recognised by the Commonwealth.

Several JNA posts were attacked by the ZNG before the blockade was officially sanctioned, largely in response to local battlefield situations.

Those who do take an interest in architecture and who have long considered Augusta to be the most strategically brilliant layout in the world (outside of St Andrews, at least) know that the responsibility for "crime" lies largely with Johnson, who sanctioned a series of changes to the course around the start of the decade that undermined its elemental genius.

This is largely because US sanctions against Iran have limited its supply of refined fuel, forcing the country to burn low-quality diesel.

Despite this messy history, last summer Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, told voters he wanted to increase tourism on Kish, largely due to the heavily sanctioned government's desperate need for foreign currency.

Last year the Treasury applied largely symbolic sanctions against PDVSA, Venezuela's state oil company, for exporting refined products to Iran.

Mr. Obama did seek to increase pressure on Syria by imposing largely symbolic sanctions on its leader, President Bashar al-Assad, in the wake of the bloody crackdown there.