The drop in profitability was driven by $2.4bn in fines and customer compensation costs, largely connected to fines in connection with traders' attempted manipulation of foreign exchange rates and compensation for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
Interestingly, we observed that connected components of Borrelia's chromosomes were largely connected by "full homology" edges (thus likely evolving by vertical descent), but that connected components on Borrelia's plasmids were largely connected by "partly similar edges", and therefore seemed to be subjected to more complex evolutionary processes.
"But now, I see that the world is a largely connected community.
Today in Northern Ontario, settlement has little agricultural base and is largely connected with major industries and transportation routes.
Martina was a minor martyr-saint, one whose cult was largely connected to the small Roman church where da Cortona found her relics.
These negative feelings are largely connected to offshoring, where work is outsourced to countries that can provide labour at a cheaper rate.
A prime mark of a director's inventiveness is a sense of choice; another is a sense of inflection — and they're largely connected.
Even after a wave of privatizations in the 1990s, Italy's economy is still largely connected to the public sector, especially in lucrative areas like infrastructure and health care, and such contracts depend on good connections with the government.
Until the 19th century, economic fluctuations were largely connected with shortages of goods, market expansion, and speculation, as in the incident known as the South Sea Bubble (1720), when stock speculation reached panic proportions in both France and England.
There are structural parallels between Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" and "Kammermusik No. 2" (two ballerinas working in close duet with the solo instrument; a corps de ballet of eight largely connected to the orchestra).
