Sentence examples for performing largely from inspiring English sources

(Pareles) ALLEN TOUSSAINT (Sunday) This legendary New Orleans songwriter, producer and pianist has spent the months since Hurricane Katrina performing largely for the benefit of the continuing relief efforts in the Crescent City.

An early rundown of the event, shared by the National Parks Service, which issued the permit for the event, listed a first hour dominated by musical acts (including The Roots), with Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert performing largely in the second hour, and more musicians (including Sheryl Crow) and a taped, fake-awards conclusion in the third hour.

For fund administrators it was an easy way to earn a few basis points for performing largely clerical functions and rubber-stamping books and NAV statements prepared by fund managers.

Before Charters's research was published, traditional blues was performed largely for aging black audiences.

However Erdoğan's two presidential predecessors – Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Abdullah Gül – performed largely ceremonial roles and never chaired a government meeting.

The movie is performed largely in the open air, and the wandering camera follows the players unobtrusively, keeping largely a stone's throw away.

It's the story of a production of Julius Caesar performed largely by the Mafia in a prison in Rome.

It also reflects the lengthy task of training tens of thousands of new Iraqi security forces to take over jobs now performed largely by American troops.

It is the end of a quiet pursuit of a story, performed largely on his own, away from crowded arenas, one that is appreciated by a different audience.

Surgery remained the treatment of choice, though it was performed largely only in wealthier countries and could leave a patient with a limp.

The six justices appointed in the two decades since have performed largely as expected, probably thanks to increased scrutiny of more robust paper trails and less ideological drift.