Sentence examples for largely polite from inspiring English sources

So far, it has been a largely polite contest.

Although some had half-jogged to the display of womenswear, menswear and accessories, the shoppers were largely polite to each other, friendly even, as they heaped armfuls of dresses and tops into shopping carts.

Sharing a stage for the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Democratic challengers hashed out their differences Tuesday night over guns, foreign policy and Wall Street regulation in a pointed but largely polite debate that underscored the broad consensus among the party's leading presidential contenders.

In England though, as one of 49 official holidays, for the ruling class 5 November became overshadowed by events such as the birthdays of Admiral Edward Vernon, or John Wilkes, and under George II and George III, with the exception of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, it was largely "a polite entertainment rather than an occasion for vitriolic thanksgiving".

The criticism was polite largely because the meeting was open to reporters, a number of participants said.

His are written in block capitals, breathless in their intensity, polite, largely impersonal and almost wholly concerned with the evidence.

Making politics polite again.

There were a scattering of boos in the audience, which the lobbying group estimated at about 10,000, but these were largely drowned out by polite applause.

The audience largely remained silent, save for polite rounds of applause and occasional laughter when the speakers tried to lighten the mood with what almost qualified as jokes.

Moli was given the same houseparents as Sterling near St Helens, where they lived in a four-bedroom semi-detached property with Peter and Sandra Reeves, a couple in their early 60s whose memories of the period are positive, largely because of Sterling's polite manner and clear appreciation of their help.

Now Mr Cameron can point to a modest electoral revival in surrounding areas; and locals treat the presence of his activists, still largely rich and southern, with polite indifference.But herein lies a remaining doubt about the man who would be the next prime minister.