The phrase "acting primarily" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the main role or function of a person or thing in a specific context.
Example: "The committee is acting primarily to address the concerns of the community."
Alternatives: "functioning mainly" or "operating chiefly".
But this is a stumble into relevance for a band that appears to be acting primarily from instinct.
Some accused the central bank of acting primarily to slow or reverse the euro's slide against the dollar and said the move seemed to be a reaction to the Fed's rate increase on Wednesday.
Some Democrats speculate, and state Republican leaders deny, that the legislators are acting primarily as agents of the Republican National Committee on a mission to bloody Mr. Cuomo before the 1992 Presidential race.
Our results show that the inhibitory effects of a humic analog on CH4 production depend on peatland type, acting primarily as a toxic compound in bog soils and as a competitive TEA in fen soils.
Our results demonstrate that it is possible, using this experimental design, to distinguish between chemicals acting primarily via the selection of pre-existing Tk mutants and those inducing de novo mutants in the MLA.
Thus, "rather than acting primarily as a gateway to the adult either receiving care and support or not, the future system will place more emphasis on the role of the assessment process in supporting people to identify their needs, understand the options available to them, plan for meeting care needs and for caring responsibilities and reduce or delay needs where possible".
On the Food Network's "Taste," shown weekdays at 10 30 P.M. and weekends at 2 P.M., David Rosengarten, a cookbook writer and a restaurant critic for Gourmet magazine, explores a single culinary topic in a semi-scholarly way, throwing in a fair amount of how-to, but acting primarily as a cultural tour guide.
However, when a board implements anti-takeover measures there arises "the omnipresent specter that a board may be acting primarily in its own interests, rather than those of the corporation and its shareholders...".. Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co., 493 at2d at 954.
Because of the omnipresent specter that a board may be acting primarily in its own interests, rather than those of the corporation and its shareholders, there is an enhanced duty which calls for judicial examination at the threshold before the protections of the business judgment rule may be conferred.
We therefore propose that effects of ecosystem engineering (acting primarily on a local scale) and variation in abiotic conditions (acting on larger scales, e.g., hydrodynamic gradients along the Dutch coastline) strongly interact to dictate the distribution and fitness of engineering species, and indirectly, the diversity and structure of associated benthic communities.
The prince said that as sale of the aircraft - eventually used to transport Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi back home - became entrenched in a row over its final price, he was increasingly convinced Mrs Sharab was acting primarily for the Libyans and not "entitled to one cent".
