Sentence examples for imposed largely from inspiring English sources

Three years of spending cuts imposed largely at her insistence have reduced Greece's gross domestic product by a staggering 25 percent and wrecked its mainstream political parties.

Mr. Stringer said the limit was imposed "largely out of concern" that the day might come when the station was no longer as underused as it seemed then.

The Bush administration imposed largely symbolic sanctions against Bank Melli, which handles most of Iran's overseas trade, and other banks last fall.

Mr. Bratton said he was committed to changes spelled out in a federal consent decree imposed largely as a result of the Rampart corruption scandal.

Yet under his rule, extravagant taxation, imposed largely to meet the cost of a virtually standing army, threatened the prosperity of the duchy, which derived from agricultural wealth, silk, and arms manufacture.

The truce was imposed largely under pressure from the United States, particularly in repeated phone calls from Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, as it seeks to recruit Arab nations for its campaign against terrorism.

Mr. Obama did seek to increase pressure on Syria by imposing largely symbolic sanctions on its leader, President Bashar al-Assad, in the wake of the bloody crackdown there.

The new deal also kept procedures for imposing discipline largely the same.

While the federal impeachment process imposes the largely opaque requirement that the accused have committed "high crimes and misdemeanors," in South Carolina the standard is far more clear and easier to satisfy: "serious misconduct".

What is clearly quite different is that an enzyme can impose a largely reduced and modified ensemble of conformational states and thereby direct the thermo-activated conformational sampling toward a small set of reactive substates.

So the death penalty is largely being abolished where it is not being imposed and remains largely untouched where it is.