Sentence examples for be largely the case from inspiring English sources

The Guardian's prediction about the government's monopoly of the news turned out to be largely the case: the government established their own broadsheet publication, the British Gazette, a propaganda sheet edited by Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Prostitutes' associations insist that this is largely the case.

She said she liked that it was not dependent on publishers' nominations, which is largely the case with the Booker.

Under the proposed legislation disclosed by Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile mineralNgcuka, minerightsghts would reside with the state, rather than with companies, as is largely the case today.

That was largely the case at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday night, in the first of Sonic Youth's two sold-out shows.

But it is largely the case in the South, which is not only where the majority of blacks live but also the nation's most important political region, because of its historical tendency to vote as a bloc for one party or the other.

In e-commerce, they say, most value is created by business models the way in which firms conduct their affairs with suppliers and partners, as well as customers rather than (as is largely the case in the offline world) the products or services themselves.

That is largely the case in the N.B.A, in which the prevalence of video, the proliferation of scouts roaming from city to city and the encyclopedic memories of most coaches have drastically reduced the actual surprise of what teams see from the other side.

In the interview, which can be seen on video (and commented on) at nytimes.com/dotearth, Mr. Conrad stressed the need for continued focus on cutting emissions wherever they come from, rather than on countries tussling for advantage, as was largely the case in Bali.

Robin Fudge Finegan, a consultant who has worked with the families of victims of mass tragedies, including those here and in Oklahoma City, said lawsuits were a natural manifestation of a healing process when victims' relatives know almost nothing about why the tragedy occurred, which is largely the case here.

Karl's young sons do not figure prominently in the narrative; for them the Jewish experience in both czarist and Soviet societies will exist primarily in the histories they will read and the stories their parents and grandparents will tell, which seems to have been largely the case for Mr. Bezmozgis, who immigrated to Canada with his family in 1980.