Sentence examples for largely to please from inspiring English sources

After earning a degree in engineering, he took a job with a government agency, largely to please his parents.

Conditions were put in place "largely to please Germany," said Jennifer McKeown, senior economist at Capital Economics in London, who also thinks the decision to sterilize the bond purchases was due to Weidmann.

They said they believed that she had changed her remarks largely to please the many friends and family members who had insisted on her innocence since she was arrested two and a half years ago.

Nonetheless, reports that Mr Koda's body was found covered by an American flag add to the perception that the prime minister deployed troops largely to please George Bush, and that Japan has become more involved than it should have.Mr Koizumi needs support from a crucial domestic ally, the New Komeito party.

The fact that the insurance industry was awarded this central role in Obamacare largely to please conservatives like yourself -- that's why the so-called public option was dropped -- is what put your proposal over the top on cynicism points.

In my defense, I was ten years old, but it bothered me that he insisted on having the audience sing along with him, that some of the songs felt more like agitprop than art, that the aggressive anti-Reagan jokes (mostly from Guthrie, to be fair) seemed to please the largely self-selected crowd.

Ms. Meyers can also drive her fans crazy, largely because her ravenous need to please the audience sometimes gets in the way of her talent.

For the annual spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Kevin McKenzie, the company's artistic director, seems to feel that he must always provide a new full-evening narrative ballet, with splashy sets and a plummy old score, to please A.B.T.'s largely conservative subscribers.

7Days, which is run and edited largely by Westerners, advised its readers to "please remember that this is a Muslim country and many of us are guests here".

The car tries to please everyone, and largely succeeds.

To Please a Lady (1950) was largely forgettable, with Gable as a race-car driver and Barbara Stanwyck as the tough reporter who falls in love with him.