This is partly because of its structure as a loose network of franchises that operate largely independently.
That left the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and individual nations to pursue aid programs largely independently, with varying aims and mixed results.
For nearly a year before the peshmerga operation in Sinjar, a rival faction had been battling ISIS largely independently in the town.
These bands of half-trained volunteer warriors have done much of the fighting in the current conflict, operating largely independently of the government, and often without adequate coördination.
The agencies function largely independently and diverge widely in the way they train their employees to deal with the public, Ms. Dolinsky said.
National payments systems have developed largely independently of each other, with their designers giving little thought to getting money from one country to another.
Using stairs and the elevator, three police officers and an armed citizen (the university bookstore manager), acting largely independently, found themselves together on the 27th floor.
The decentralized nature of Al Qaeda's organization — with its regional affiliates operating largely independently — further increases its ability to withstand leadership attacks.
Like graduate schools on campus, it operates largely independently from the university — with its own endowment and doing its own fund-raising — but still is part of the university.
Inneractive will be run largely independently within RNTS Media, the company said.
Historically, logic-based approaches to automated classification and cheminformatics approaches have developed largely independently.
