Sentence examples for largely quiescent from inspiring English sources

The Arabs of Palestine remained largely quiescent throughout the war.

Its assertive approach to old but until recently largely quiescent territorial disputes with Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam and India has jangled nerves.

Mrs. Aquino met last month with the leader of that insurgency, Nur Misuari, and agreed to hold talks toward an end to the largely quiescent insurgency that claimed more than 50,000 lives in the 1970's.

Though episodes of dissent have been reported in both places, they remain largely quiescent, and even some activists acknowledge that the lack of popular shows of anger there has hampered their cause.

When the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act this spring, the ambivalently pro-choice public was largely quiescent, believing, as Congress had previously ruled, that the procedure was "gruesome and inhuman," medically unnecessary, highly controversial in the medical community and so rare as to be little missed.

The profound improvisations of South Asian classical music -- from revered figures like Ravi Shankar as well as younger masters like the tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain -- have long been welcome in the city's concert halls, although the classical circuit is largely quiescent in summer.

We chose this comparison, rather than that of BLCs with normal tissue, to compare two types of proliferating cells, avoiding a comparison with a largely differentiated, quiescent population.

The Nestin−/LOW population was largely composed of quiescent cells, lacking Ki-67 expression [40], whereas the Nestin+ population was largely mitotic based on Ki-67 expression.

Prostate cancer stem cells are largely undifferentiated and quiescent cells.

Until very recently, Asian-Americans have been politically quiescent and largely deferential to a status quo that works against them.

We found that the response to depletion of G, N, or P produced similar quiescent states with largely similar transcriptomes.