Sentence examples for largely surrounding from inspiring English sources

The only real record turnouts were during the 1800s, largely surrounding the time that led up to and followed the Civil War, and excluded huge swaths of voting age citizens, through slavery, Jim Crow laws, and denial of voting rights for women.

Using the retreating South Korean troops to cover their movements, the Chinese had infiltrated the brigade position in the initial stages of the battle, penetrating between A and B Companies, 3 RAR astride the road, and largely surrounding the latter before moving into the rear positions.

The town is largely surrounded by the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area.

Kennedy Airport is largely surrounded by water, and diamondback terrapins breed in and around Jamaica Bay.

The Aztec-Mexica were experienced agriculturalists who constructed and planted chinampas (raised fields that have been misnamed "floating gardens" because they are largely surrounded by water).

All the sections lie along the Little Missouri River between Medora and Watford City and are largely surrounded by units of Little Missouri National Grassland.

The land had belonged to the Otoe-Missouria tribe that is, the tribe was forcibly resettled there before the government broke up the reservations in the eighteen-nineties; it was still largely surrounded by Otoe-Missouria allotments.

At an unusually intense hearing, several council members tried to pierce the secrecy that has largely surrounded the operations of the Intelligence Division, one of the department's entities involved in counterterrorism investigations.

Largely surrounded by water, Spain has extensive coastlines and is heavily dependent on maritime transport, especially for international trade: more than four-fifths of imports and more than two-thirds of exports pass through the ports.

Columbus is at the centre of a metropolitan complex that includes Dublin (northwest), Gahanna and Westerville (northeast), Reynoldsburg (east), and Grove City (southwest); several municipalities, including Upper Arlington, Worthington, Bexley, and Whitehall, are wholly or largely surrounded by the city.

The shooting created a storm of controversy last year, as black leaders and lawyers for the Tolan family said Sergeant Cotton's actions were part of a pattern of discrimination in Bellaire, an affluent town largely surrounded by Houston.