Sentence examples for ground largely from inspiring English sources

Terman drafted a plan, but he could not get it off the ground, largely because industry would not collaborate.

I build the theater at the temple of Apollo on ground largely bought from private owners, under the name of Marcus Marcellus my son-in-law.

But she also said that the world's largest economy remains on solid ground, largely because of strong hiring, gains in disposable income and cheap borrowing costs.

The upward motion induced by flow impingement influences plume height in front of the obstacles, while behind them the downward motion related to flow reattachment to the ground largely affects the vertical spread and average height of plume.

2. The South loses ground largely; the new States of Texas, having five-fold the territory of the old States, and lying west of the Mississippi, is the only one that gains.

In many cases, blacks said they felt as if their financial footing was on precarious ground, largely because they did not have a deep well of savings or because they did not have family members to fall back on.

But Obama's New Way organization was grounded largely on Old School codes — notions of loyalty, aggressiveness and discretion.

Government officials said the new judgments were grounded largely in information from human sources that is buttressed by other information gathered by spy satellites and communications intercepts.

The first act is grounded largely in Shakespeare's story, while the second act of the musical lets the American context of the 1960's and beyond resonate more fully.

Experts say that fish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest breed and release millions of young salmon each year but that only some 5percentt of them survive long enough to return to their fresh-water spawning grounds, largely because of predation by cod.

By the end of the century, the Guelfs were themselves riven by faction, grounded largely in family and economic interests, but determined also by differing degrees of loyalty to the papacy and to Guelf allegiances.