Sentence examples for largely kill from inspiring English sources

He insists that drones largely kill innocent civilians.

But it was of some note Wednesday when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif). delivered prepared remarks proposing the elimination of the filibuster on spending bills, a move that would largely kill the 60-vote requirement and would likely be popular with House conservatives and President Donald Trump.

Computers, home consoles and the Internet largely killed arcades, once a booming business.

THE Cretaceous period ended about 65 million years ago, largely killing off the dinosaurs.

The heavy manual work that used to kill off the labouring classes has itself been largely killed off by technology.

"Just as radio and television have largely killed off the door-to-door salesman," says Anthony King, of Britain's Essex University, "so they have largely killed off the old-fashioned party worker".

After all, he was largely killing his own people, and he can be tried in his own country".

Paul the Deacon, for instance, claimed that the Roman aristocracy were largely killed in the first generation of the Lombard invasion.

The French developed Sidon as the port for Damascus; in 1791, however, the Ottoman governor of Lebanon, Aḥmad al-Jazzār, drove the French merchants from its gates, thereby largely killing its trade.

A sense of history Uruguay has been inhabited for at least 13,000 years; from around 4,000 years ago the main inhabitants were known as the Charrúa, who were largely killed off by the Europeans who arrived some time between 1502 and 1516.

But the weight of an ageing population, young people more interested in personal enrichment than equality, and modern economic realities, have largely killed the guiding philosophy of "from each according to their ability to each according to their needs".