Sentence examples for largely standing from inspiring English sources

Devoted crowd or not, 90 minutes of hushed, winsome Simon and Garfunkel-y acoustic lilt in a largely standing venue is still a tall order.

But it now finds itself largely standing alone to face Iran since its most important ally in that fight, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, has been ousted in a popular uprising.

Theirs is music that works harder than the performers, which was a liability during the early part of the set, especially on "Boom Boom Pow," one of the most limber pop songs in recent years, which the group delivered largely standing still, letting phalanxes of dancers around them do most of the work.

But with the Islamists increasingly well established in the north and appearing to be on the move southward, and with an undisciplined Malian Army that is largely standing by, there have been rising fears about possible Islamist incursions into the portion of Mali still controlled by the government.

Some 200 hundred of the men eventually attacked the women, with police largely standing by.

China National Radio said that more than 80 percent of the homes in the area had collapsed but that schools and government buildings had largely remained standing.

The Sept. 11 draft report also has photographs and a description of debris collected from a previously undisclosed, multistory collapse within 5 World Trade Center, a nine-story office building that also burned on Sept. 11 but largely remained standing.

What you saw on screen was largely men standing in front of doors – the glossy black of 10 Downing Street which so often served as a backdrop for her own most famous soundbites; the door of her London house; the constituency office in Finchley; and the Grantham health food store which now occupies the site of her father's grocery shop.

When mainstream American culture was largely about standing in a factory line, or crowding into smoke-stained boardrooms for meetings, or even dropping acid and collapsing in a field for your hundred-person "be-in," the idea of retiring to a dimly lit table to make up stories with three or four friends seemed fruitless and antisocial.

In the coming days, attention is set to be turned to 5 World Trade Center, the former offices of Credit Suisse First Boston at the northeast corner, the last building at the site that is largely still standing, despite the out-of-control fire that gutted it.

The city, for its part, appeared to largely be standing behind its original plan as it geared up for public hearings beginning next week.