The recession had largely shut down new construction in London, and jobs were scarce, but he was offered a teaching position at South Bank, his old college, and he took small jobs on the side.
White House aides and the speaker's staff, by mutual agreement, have largely shut down public communication about the talks to avert hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to begin in January if no deal can be reached.
The capital's two largest hospitals, sprawling facilities that once would have provided sophisticated care in just such a crisis, had largely shut down weeks earlier after doctors and nurses, their salaries rendered virtually worthless by the nation's crippling hyperinflation, simply stopped coming to work.
In Hikmat's absence, the business had largely shut down.
Justice Antonin Scalia, on the other hand, said the Constitution had largely shut down the discussion.
He had largely shut the process down in September after a man who claimed to be a negotiator representing the Taliban detonated a bomb in his turban, killing Burhanuddin Rabbani, the chief of the Afghan government's High Peace Council.
Libyan production has been largely shut down during the long conflict between rebel forces and troops loyal to Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Moreover, it's really hungry: The D.P.R.K. is desperate for food aid, which has been largely shut down by South Korea and by foreign sanctions.
The operations of the Pirate Bay were largely shut down in Sweden six years ago, but the website has continued to function.
