Sentence examples for largely appointed from inspiring English sources

The district officers are assisted by district councils, which are largely appointed.

Zimbabwe's higher judiciary was largely appointed by Mr. Mugabe and has been loyal to his party.

Activists say the administration, largely appointed by Beijing, is too close to the wealthy tycoons whose property development empires make them influential at home and in Beijing.

Though the authority's current commissioners from New Jersey were largely appointed by former Gov. Christie Whitman, a spokesman for the new governor insisted that Mr. McGreevey's veto message was not a partisan statement.

As the executive now controls the Commons almost completely, this safeguard is only reliable if the executive does not also control the Lords.A largely appointed Lords, or a Lords elected via the patronage of the main parties, is not immune from executive pressure.

More attention has focused on a provision of the budget that removes tenure protection from state law — leaving it in the hands of a board of regents largely appointed by Walker.

His neighbors, largely Whigs, appointed him "overseer" of his road in 1847 in an effort to mock him.

After a heroic expenditure of money and blood, Albornoz attained some measure of order, largely by appointing the more amenable tyrants as "papal vicars" and by securing from them promises of payment of taxes and services in return for acknowledgment of overlordship.

President Hamid Karzai was appointed largely because he embidied a traditional Pashtun identity.

Others say he bypasses their ministries, relying instead on a cabal of personal advisers appointed largely because of their loyalty to his fairly small Dawa party.

The proposed cabinet, including the new prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, is largely the one appointed earlier by the army and denounced by the rebels as full of geriatrics.