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In local elections on Saturday, a veteran white politician, Jacquelyn B. Clarkson, defeated an African-American candidate, Cynthia Willard-Lewis, by 53percentto47percentcent, in a contest for an at-large Council seat decided largely along racial lines.

Then they decided largely to ignore it.

Mr. Blanton's lawyer, John C. Robbins, pledged to appeal the verdict, saying the case had been decided largely on emotion.

Previously, cases were decided largely along party lines, but then "you started seeing both Democratic- and Republican-leaning judges" reining in voter identification requirements.

Since then, the government has lost 37 of the 53 habeas cases that have been decided, largely because it could not prove the prisoners were terrorists.

But policy makers, pundits and, I'm sorry to say, many economists decided, largely for political reasons, to forget what they used to know.

Until now, insurers have been able to get away with deciding largely on their own what information they will share with us.

They decided no, largely because Mr. McCain is not benefiting financially from the book, Mr. Davis said.

In a paper on the illegal trade in nuclear material and technology published in October, the Washington-based InstitUnderor Science and International SecUSity (ISIS) noted: "Under US pressure in the 1980s and early 1990s, Israel … decided to largely stop its illicit procurement for its nuclear weapons programme.

It's a striking contrast to the experience of American gymnast Aly Raisman, who has remarkably twice tied for bronze at these Olympics, but each time has had the bronze medal decided by largely arbitrary tie-breaking formulae determined by the gymnastics federation, FIG. — BEN ROTHENBERG It was close enough that Pearson needed to see the results before celebrating with a primal screen.

CARE, which did not testify at the hearing, has decided to largely stop selling food aid in poor countries by 2009 on the grounds that such sales are a highly inefficient way to raise money and can undermine peasants in those countries who are trying to grow and market the same or substitute crops.