Sentence examples for are chiefly defined from inspiring English sources

Social roles in China are chiefly defined by familial and institutional relations where people exist through and are defined by their hierarchical relationships with others.

The reason for this paucity of creeds is that Jewish identity has been chiefly defined in terms of the observance of the commandments and of the Oral Torah, not the acceptance of doctrines.

The view that the period in question is chiefly defined by its collective tendency toward revisionism is an overgeneralization resulting from an overemphasis (by some film scholars) on certain critically acclaimed Westerns that are revisionist in large part: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, and Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller, to name but three.

They were chiefly defined by their anti-communism, which galvanized diverse or opposed movements like falangists and monarchists.

For years, the South Sudanese have chiefly defined themselves as not being northern Sudanese.

They are chiefly influenced by blowing winds.

They are chiefly aimed at domestic consumption.

These are chiefly in music.

The issues presented are chiefly of law.

They function to define the distinctive beliefs of opposing or uniting groups within a given religion or to formulate doctrines appropriate to new circumstances, and are chiefly a Christian phenomenon during the period from the Reformation to the present.

They are worldwide in distribution but are chiefly tropical.