The programs, they said, apply largely to areas suffering from insurgencies or war.
American officials say many of the militants have close ties to Iran or to Mr. Sadr, whose once-fearsome Shiite militia, the Mahdi Army, was largely demobilized after suffering humiliating defeats three years ago.
With its suffering largely cut off from the outside world, this landlocked former French colony, population 5.1 million, has catapulted into place as one of Africa's most troubled countries.
For me, however, reading then was largely akin to suffering through an ordeal.
Across the street, the main public hospital remained largely off limits after suffering big cracks, although state officials called the damage largely cosmetic and said that the hospital had evacuated some patients and moved others to the lobby, transformed into a kind of makeshift clinic.
The tattoo was supposed to remind me of what I tended to forget every day, to be less selfish, or less insular, to remember promises, to try to think less of my own largely imaginary suffering and devote some time and energy to considering the suffering of others.
Almeida was largely inactive politically after suffering heart problems in 2003.
I think my mother took some pleasure in the embarrassment that white and black Americans alike felt when she called herself a Negress, since their image of her, she thought, was largely sentimental, heavy with suffering.
Influenced by John McLaughlin, the guitarist Sérgio Dias moved toward jazz-rock fusion and has recorded with the Indian violinist Shankar and the former Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera; his brother Arnaldo has largely been inactive since suffering brain injuries in 1982 while trying to escape from a mental hospital, where he had been sent because of drug problems.
Wiggins, nicknamed 'Le Gentleman' by French media for his part in neutralising the race after Sunday's sabotage attack when tacks were thrown in the road, had a largely uneventful day after suffering an early puncture.
