Sentence examples for largely tightened from inspiring English sources

Brady's knowledge of horses is remarkable; Zhao shows him putting his knowledge into action, and does so in scenes that are largely tightened, truncated, edited down to illustrative sidebars, and their brevity is governed by their silence.

UNTIL recently, private planes and their well-heeled passengers had remained largely exempt from the tightened security procedures implemented after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001.

One-time charges connected to how its debt is valued and other accounting-related issues reduced the results by nearly $5 billion, largely because of tightening credit spreads.

At the United Nations, President Bush on Tuesday announced a largely symbolic tightening of American sanctions against Myanmar's government.

The league's report argues that the ban has largely worked, but it wants it tightened.

Worse still, he's tightened up his rapping, largely sticking to simple patterns that when paired with simple ideas, are numbing.

The tightened race is due largely to a sea change among independents, who supported Obama by 9 points in June, but leaned toward Romney by 7 points in the latest poll.

Despite the Fed's aggressive rate cutting, Mr. Farrell said he did not foresee a swift economic turnaround, largely because lending standards were also being tightened in response to the problems in the subprime mortgage market.

The country tightened its currency controls in 1997 and, largely as a result, sailed through the Asian crisis relatively unscathed.

But that spending largely dried up as home values fell and credit tightened, and the drought is likely to continue.

A set of new security laws has tightened the space for civil society and largely excluded foreign non-governmental organizations from operating in China.