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Central Athens was largely shut down on Thursday as public sector workers protested in Syntagma Square, outside Parliament.

Last year, with Democrats controlling the United States House of Representatives, Texas' delegation of Republicans was largely shut out of power.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis continued to spend their time in shelters, and Haifa was largely shut down, with only grocery stores and pharmacies open.

The material came from Tuwaitha, an important location in Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons development program until it was largely shut down after the Persian Gulf war of 1991.

"Into the Wild," a lengthy look at a man's journey to the Alaska wilderness and ultimate death by starvation, was largely shut out, despite aggressive campaigning.

Another movie-to-musical venture, "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," was largely shut out, getting only two nods, for Tony Sheldon as lead actor and for its over-the-top costumes.

But Spaniards have been largely shut out of those jobs.

She noted that communications were largely shut down.

Jordanian women aren't alone in being largely shut out of political office.

Women were largely shut out of the arts in traditional China.

The young and the (not so) old are largely shut out of work.