Sentence examples for was largely appointed from inspiring English sources

Zimbabwe's higher judiciary was largely appointed by Mr. Mugabe and has been loyal to his party.

The district officers are assisted by district councils, which are largely appointed.

Though the authority's current commissioners from New Jersey were largely appointed by former Gov. Christie Whitman, a spokesman for the new governor insisted that Mr. McGreevey's veto message was not a partisan statement.

Walpole became extremely powerful and was largely able to appoint ministers of his own choosing.

The appointment was largely symbolic, and Ismay "was at least partly appointed to forestall potential criticism by his friend Winston Churchill".

His subsequent military career was largely unsuccessful, though in 1804 Napoleon appointed him a marshal.

A more democratic Florentine Republic was refounded, partly inspired by the Venetian model, but in place of a Doge, Savonarola, who was largely responsible for the new constitution, appointed Jesus Christ — instructions from whom were inevitably to be relayed to the Florentines via his vicar on earth, the selfsame Girolamo Savonarola.

Stefano Pioli was largely unheard of outside Italy when he was appointed last summer.

The democracy it imported was largely a chimera the franchise extremely restricted, the ministers appointed by the emperor, not parliament.

In his opinion, Judge Weinstein described the situation of poor women facing the loss of their children as Kafkaesque and said the appointed-counsel system was "largely a sham".

Mobs in Boston and other towns rioted and forced appointed stamp distributors to renounce their posts; legal business was largely halted.