Sentence examples for was largely unchecked from inspiring English sources

Crime was largely unchecked.

He chose to tackle organised crime which was largely unchecked under his predecessors.

When the commission approved Google's 2007 acquisition of DoubleClick, I dissented — because I was concerned that combining the two companies' vast troves of consumer information would allow Google, which was largely unchecked by competition, to develop invasive profiles of individuals' Internet habits.

Even anti-hunting activists have acknowledged that hunting has changed dramatically in Malta since the 1980s and early 1990s, when it was largely an unchecked and unregulated pastime.

Yet, despite the country's march towards democracy, systemic corruption has been largely left unchecked, even exploding under the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo administration (2001-2010).

Furthermore, when Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled, it created a power vacuum that was left largely unchecked, launching a civil war and allowing for al-Qaida – the group where ISIS has its genesis – to gain a foothold in Iraq for the first time.

Though Mr. Romney expressed faith in the federal requirement for background checks before buying a gun, he didn't acknowledge how porous the federal system is — largely by allowing unchecked sales at gun shows — and how much more effective tighter state regulations have been in restricting trafficking in places like California.

The well has been gushing largely unchecked since an old, leaky cap was removed from the wellhead Saturday to make way for the new one.

The rules of Canadian parliamentary democracy are largely all unwritten, and unchecked executive power has a tendency to grow.

Since then, oil has been gushing largely unchecked from the top of the well.

Until recently, antibodies to APC have been used largely unchecked.