Sentence examples for largely engineered to from inspiring English sources

The Lakers imported Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown with the trade, but it was largely engineered to save the franchise about $7 million in salary-cap space for next season.

Modern Britain is represented by a few token shots of British landmarks (most recently the Millennium bridge in David Yates's Half-Blood Prince), which seem largely engineered to encourage set-jetting.

We hadn't noticed it before we got there because we've largely engineered our lives to avoid having to dwell on the issue.

There have been also largely publicized effects of crops engineered to express the insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (BT) on non-target species (other than the stem borer), the importance of which seems to be a matter of opinion [4].

The deep downturns of the early 1980s were largely engineered by the Federal Reserve, which boosted short-term interest rates to near 20% to slow down galloping inflation.

Since taking office in 1999 in elections largely engineered by the military, Mr. Bouteflika has managed to restore a measure of peace and normalcy, assisted by high prices for the gas and oil that account for most of Algeria's national income.

But the declines confirmed what many economists have long projected: that the pace of China's growth probably hit its highest level during the first quarter of this year and that more modest rises are now in store -- a situation that has been largely engineered by the country's authorities in a bid to prevent the economy from overheating.

The change was largely engineered by Representative Bill Thomas, the California Republican who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The latest fighting in South Ossetia may have been triggered by the Georgians, but it was largely engineered by the Russians, who have, over the years, fanned the flames of the conflict.

The result was that during the California power crisis -- which, it is increasingly apparent, was largely engineered by Enron and other companies that had the administration's ear -- the administration did nothing.

For hundreds of years historians have known the plot was largely engineered by Francesco de Pazzi, from a rival family of bankers, with an assist from Pope Sixtus IV, who sought power for his nephew.