Sentence examples for goals largely from inspiring English sources

By 1970 these goals largely had been achieved.

Now, Afghan and American officials are cautiously celebrating a deflation of the Taliban's propaganda bubble, the militants' goals largely unmet.

This means keeping the goals largely the same but giving firms and their auditors more leeway in achieving them.

Similarly, an austerity program in Britain appears to be falling short of its goals, largely because economic growth has consistently failed to measure up to government expectations.

Toronto has gone 2-0-1 in its last three games despite scoring four goals, largely because of the play of James Reimer.

Rowlands's finely researched biography is a frothy read — like leafing through decades' worth of fashion magazines — but Snow, however charming, had a darker side: she was ruthless in pursuit of her goals, largely ignored her society husband and docile daughters, and drank prodigiously.

Making sites useful to people with disabilities has been an elusive goal, largely because the software tools do not make it easy.

While many intellectuals, like Yeats, became increasingly committed to the cause of Irish independence — a goal largely achieved with the creation of the Irish Free State, in 1922 — others, like Dunsany, supported continued union with England.

Clear Skies would require a two-thirds reduction in most power plant emissions by 2018, and seek to achieve that goal largely by creating a system in which companies can trade emissions credits.

While some economists speculate that the administration plans to reach that goal largely by watching the dollar decline, making American goods cheaper abroad, most trade experts say that opening markets abroad for American exports will have to be a crucial part of any strategy to increase export growth.

Former President Barack Obama planned to meet that goal largely by reducing pollution from the utility sector, by far the country's biggest emitter.