Sentence examples for largely self-contained from inspiring English sources

Cambodian villages usually developed in a linear pattern along waterways and roads, but houses were also often found on largely self-contained paddy farms.

So openness and curiosity have nourished him, but his track record as an artist suggests a firm, unaffected identity, something already well honed and largely self-contained.

But these powers were largely self-contained; they interacted little and thus had no need to agree on a set of common rules to guide their relations.

Medieval Europe was largely self-contained until the First Crusade (1096 99), which opened new political and commercial communications with the Muslim Near East.

Perhaps, but the striking thing about these deals is that, with the exception of Zain, most of the acquired firms still seem largely self-contained with relatively little integration with the Indian parents.

In just a few years, a vibrant, competitive and largely self-contained economy had materialized around the bus stop, or bah-see zhan, an economy that employed at least 200 people, all of them bound to one another in a complicated network of alliances, dependencies and feuds.

"In our time the quest for world order will require relating the perceptions of societies whose realities have largely been self-contained," Kissinger argues.

This is largely a little self-contained corner of the economy oriented around the particular timing of the school year.

More often than not, then, both lists of top poets and angry responses to such lists have the same net effect: To define poetry as a series of geographic sub-units or highly-circumscribed sub-communities, all of which are largely self-sufficient and self-contained and therefore do little to directly promote American poetry as a national cultural phenomenon.

However, as Tintin expert Michael Farr related, whereas Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus had been largely "self-sufficient and self-contained", the connection between The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure was to be far closer.

As WMRT, in effect, operates a franchise, then each of the host venues trades in a self-contained way, largely unaffected by the currency volatility that has been the nature of the market for at least the last six months.