Sentence examples for applies chiefly from inspiring English sources

In Korean tradition, there's a complicated emotion called han which, by general consensus, applies chiefly to women.

Wanting to avoid the chaos of a multi-party system makes some sense; but the confusion they cause applies chiefly to a parliamentary system, which the United States does not have.

The limitations of current monitoring modalities should be understood, and this applies chiefly to the assessment of recovery.

It is also possible that the effect we have detected applies chiefly to synonymous substitutions in protein coding sequences.

Some are outmoded ("SYPHILIS: Pretty much everyone has it"), or apply chiefly to Flaubert himself, who contracted syphilis enough times to cancel out many other people.

Cicero called himself an Academic, but this applied chiefly to his theory of knowledge, in which he preferred to be guided by probability rather than to allege certainty; in this way, he justified contradictions in his own works (see also epistemology: Ancient Skepticism).

The name Africa, however, was chiefly applied to the northern coast of the continent, which was, in effect, regarded as a southern extension of Europe.

The name jasper is from the Greek iaspis, of Semitic origin; in ancient writings the term was chiefly applied to translucent and brightly coloured stones, particularly chalcedony, but also was applied to the opaque jasper.

The former are chiefly applied with the aim to detect overall relations between spatial distance and genetic difference with the help of special descriptors of covariation.

For example, they figure prominently in the arguments for extending Title IX requirements for equal opportunity in education to science training programs (Rolison 2000, Zare 2006), that had, in the past, chiefly been applied to inequities in support for women's sports.

But this argument does not apply only - or even chiefly - to cannabis.