Sentence examples for largely defunct from inspiring English sources

The branches are largely defunct and the conferences staged primarily for the media.

The officials also said the liaison office, located at the largely defunct resort of Diamond Mountain in the North, played a limited role in cross-border relations.

The Military Staff Committee is a largely defunct organ comprising the Chiefs of Staff of the five permanent Security Council members.

Referring to the largely defunct string of resorts known as the borscht belt, she added: "That's why I think Jews found acceptance here.

A Palestinian official declared that Palestinian officers would refuse to leave, but the joint offices have been sparsely staffed and largely defunct anyway.

He repeatedly referred to Rabbi Naiman as a good man and criticized the prosecution's investigation for destroying the council, which is now largely defunct.

Acclaimed as both a celebration of "old" Hollywood and a demonstration of the enduring power of a largely-defunct genre, The Artist becomes the first silent title to win the most prestigious prize in show-business since 1929.

However, its legacy lives on through Ale et Ange, whose launch was funded largely by the defunct store's liquidated assets.

Today however, the notion of exporting sweeping eschatological revolution is now largely seen as defunct, and the only glowering a long dead Ayatollah Khomeni does these days are from billboards in Tehran and faded posters in Beirut's southern suburbs.

But these days those programmes – once held up by the company as evidence of its newfound caring, environmentally friendly image – are either defunct or largely irrelevant.

"Please Like Me," which ran in the U.S., largely unheralded, on the now-defunct Pivot, is thankfully available on Hulu: four seasons, thirty-two episodes, with a satisfying, appropriately bittersweet ending.