"This 'disproportionate use' as the report puts it largely ignored the well-understood police powers and rather relied on the highly dubious tactic of so-called 'consensual' searches.
But he retreated from that position at a town hall meeting on Thursday, and said he put it forward largely to fuel controversy and conversation about childhood obesity.
During the question and answer session, Mr. Paterson told the "soda addicts" in the room not to worry because he did not expect the Legislature to pass his proposal for an 18percenttaxax on soda and other sugary drinks, and said he put it forward largely to initiate controversy and conversation.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates put it in a largely favourable response, "I have never met a black Republican in all my time in New York.
She only made films that interested her, refusing to work just for money, as she put it, but they went largely unnoticed.
Despite an influx of "yuppies by the bushel," as the Greek-born Mr. Delis put it, the neighborhood is largely working class.
The movies, as the historian Francis G. Couvares put it, were "an industry largely financed by Protestant bankers, operated by Jewish studio executives, and policed by Catholic bureaucrats".
