Sentence examples for largely asleep from inspiring English sources

At present, the New York art establishment is rich, self-pleasured and largely asleep.

Reinhard Bütikofer, a Green MEP, said Europe's financial institutions were largely "asleep at the wheel" on this issue, in spite of numerous wake-up calls on the carbon bubble from stakeholders such as the the Bank of England.

"A bipartisan consensus on privacy rights is emerging, and now the states are taking collective action where Congress has been largely asleep at the switch," ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero wrote in a blog post about the move to truncate monitoring of online activity.

"It's something more -- a type of found art, a way of 'flipping the bird' to a society that is largely asleep".

Well, now we know why Twitter decided to move its earnings report to before the market opens (when the West Coast will conveniently, largely be asleep).

Research has found that nighttime tornadoes are twice as likely to kill people as daytime tornadoes, largely because people are asleep and may not hear weather radios or sirens.

When asleep, animals largely avoid these energetic costs, and can thus allocate resources to the immune system (sensu [ 13, 15]).

Since these bouts were largely made up of time asleep, these data indicate that DKO mice have an inability to maintain consolidated rest behavior, presumably as a result of the sleep and wake fragmentation which has previously been extensively documented in orexin ligand knockout and orexin-ataxin-3 orexin-ataxin-3 orexin-ataxin-3notransgenicO mice [26].

Thus inspired, they descended to the platform, piled onto the largely empty cars, and then, either asleep, reading a newspaper, or with heads bowed as if in prayer over BlackBerrys, journeyed in silence on the 32.4 miles to Grand Central.

The trial and the appeal involved an attack in 1993 on the largely Muslim village of Ahmici, Bosnia, where Croatian forces killed 116 civilians, most of them asleep at the time, others hiding in their basements.

The combination, largely with lorazepam, is no better than haloperidol for all the outcomes measured, except for 'being asleep by three hours', which favours the benzodiazepine-haloperidol mix.