Sentence examples for largely a list of from inspiring English sources

Third, this manifesto is largely a list of prohibitions.

Her speech was largely a list of achievements and struggles the department faced during her tenure, from the Boston Marathon bombing earlier this year to natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy.

And while he managed not to drift into blanket denigrations of any gender, nationality or religion, his speech was largely a list of problems facing Israel, an insistence that President Barack Obama is to blame, and a promise to solve everything.

So, for example, a section about Cavendish's struggle to conceive a child consists largely of a list of the cures that were prescribed to her and her husband: This time they tried, for him, crystals taken from wood ash and dissolved in wine each morning; for me, a tincture of herbs put into my womb at night with a long syringe.

In starting the "great books program" at Wright, Professor Gans proposed the Bible, the Koran and the works of more than 140 writers drawn largely from a list of the classics compiled by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

France too, before its 1993 amendment, largely restricted parents to a list of mostly Catholic saints' names.

HELEN C. GAGEL Evanston, Ill., Feb. 1, 2012 To the Editor: Most high school counselors realize that college rankings are largely ineffective for creating a list of colleges that match a student's interests, abilities and needs, because the student's needs were not taken into consideration when the rankings were created.

Our results support the prediction that the mouse inactive X chromosome is largely silent, while providing a list of the genes potentially escaping X inactivation in rodents.

Yet until recently, the genetic basis for most complex diseases has been largely unknown, with just a list of genes identified accounting for very little of the diseases in the population [2].

The column also omitted Vermont from a list of largely white states where Mr. Obama won a majority of the white vote (66 percent).

In recent weeks, officials said, he started to compile information — largely biographical and political — for a list of potential running mates.