Their very large, and largely guaranteed, contracts make that a tougher sell than N.F.L. players had in their lockout.
The loyalty of these empowered sheiks largely guaranteed the loyalty of their followers.
A potential bid battle is looming for London and Continental Railways, the company building the 5.2 billion pound Channel Tunnel Rail Link, whose debts are largely guaranteed by the taxpayer.
Those include its consumer finance operations, private-label credit card businesses and the $306 billion of illiquid assets, largely guaranteed by the government.
"Members of the Honduran élite and the government officials they work with know quite well that the corrupt criminal-justice system largely guarantees them impunity, and they continue to test what they can get away with, including widespread violence by state security forces.
The Yuezhi Kushan Empire in northern India largely guaranteed the security of Parthia's eastern border.
Cynically riding the wave of growing Islamophobic sentiment in France, this republication followed on the heels of a revolting and deliberately anti-Muslim film [ Innocence of Muslims] whose emergence the right to freedom of speech, largely guaranteed in the US, had allowed.
A new energy bill is designed to stimulate some £110 billion ($176 billion) in new investment, largely by guaranteeing energy prices for different technologies, from wind to nuclear.
The rule applies to all government departments, an effort to reduce a huge state work force that largely has guaranteed jobs for life and handsome state pensions.
The author presents a list of eight features an architecture should largely fulfil to guarantee an efficient use of high-dense optical interconnects.
Ever the wise moneyman, he has largely reinvested this money, in order to guarantee the foundation's long-term security.
