Sentence examples for largely tame from inspiring English sources

A gauge of prices in the report registered no change, suggesting inflation in the United States was largely tame.

(Never mind that they were largely tame; Mr Woodford recalls them acting like "children in a classroom" when the then chairman, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, called for a show of hands to oust him).

And unlike Japan, South Korea has largely tamed the problem of bad bank loans, which have fallen to just 2.4percentt of total loans from a peak of 13.2percentt in late 1998.

He largely tamed the Legislature, which appeared ungovernable during the brief Spitzer and Paterson administrations, so quieting it that at times Albany's rule by "three men in a room" — the governor and legislative leaders — seemed reduced to one.

In today's world this virtue is all the more vital, because now that we have largely tamed the scourges of nature, most of our troubles are self-inflicted.

Judging by history, the current turbulence will eventually yield to an era of relative stability, an era when global political, economic, and social structures have largely tamed the new forms of chaos.

Not all the problems were solved, but many were, and by making clear distinctions between sections, the cathedral's acoustics were largely tamed, though one or two passages still dissolved into aural mush.

There is disagreement in the Labor Party over Europe also, but Mr. Blair, a cautious euro-enthusiast, has largely tamed it by saying Britain will not enter a monetary union until crucial economic tests are met and a referendum is held.

With the benefit of such knowledge, Mr Daley has largely tamed the council, which paralysed Mayor Washington, though there has been some recent dissent.Three wishesThe mayor has put his political dominance to good use, devoting his energies to three issues in particular.

Government buildings and websites are plastered with election propaganda, a violation of electoral law that has been met with only the most timid of protests from the mostly pro-government board of the electoral authority.The media, which were a hotbed of anti-government sentiment from the time of Mr Chávez's first election to his winning of 2004's recall referendum, have been largely tamed.

The upper Hudson has largely been tamed.