Shalbandi is less than 100 miles northwest of Islamabad, the capital, and lies just south of the lush Swat Valley, a onetime ski resort known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan" that has been largely taken over by the Taliban despite large-scale army operations.
The justice system largely takes over from there, and is today still grinding on.
Quds Force officers set up a command post in Damascus and largely took over the direction of the war.
Now that America's manufacturing base has been largely taken over by China, our intellectual property is our main advantage.
With the decline of the soferim, their tradition of biblical scholarship was largely taken over by the Pharisees and, in later generations, by the tannaim, amoraim, and geonim.
By late 2006, the Sunni insurgency had been largely taken over by extremist groups like Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who were attacking Shiites, the country's largest sect.
This is because the enforcement of covenants by means of injunction, the equitable servitude discussed in the next section, has largely taken over, as a practical matter, for covenants that run with the land at law.
With the development of wall mosaic, glass largely took over the functions of stone, producing tints of unsurpassed intensity and leading to a continuing search for new coloristic effects.
This year, state officials said, the Fund for Jobs and other outside groups have largely taken over much of the political work traditionally performed by political parties in New Jersey, using unlimited dollars to do polling and strategy.
Again reflecting the sedentary life, sensory functions are largely taken over by the posterior mantle margins and typically comprise tentacles developed from the middle mantle folds that are mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors.
