If the late concert of Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat was less successful, despite stylish playing, it was chiefly because the story was told in French.
When Hamsun won, in 1920, it was chiefly because of "Growth of the Soil," which the Academy saw as a lesson of "heroic struggle".
And it was, chiefly because of the increasingly assured and inspired playing of those young instrumentalists under Mr. Levine's knowing hand.
Though his attempts at Strasbourg in 1836 and at Boulogne in 1840 were failures, it was chiefly because of the growth of the legend that he won election to the presidency of the Second Republic with an overwhelming majority in 1848 and was able to carry out the coup d'état of December 1851 and make himself emperor in 1852.
But it is chiefly because of a need for cash.The chief topic of the talks is the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by the rogue state in the 1970s and 1980s.
Partly because it was hateful; chiefly because it was false.
This is partly because it was so unlikely, but chiefly because it prepared the ground for the Athenian enlightenment and its great flowering of philosophy and history, of rhetoric and drama and poetry – ways of organising intellectual and public life that are at the core of so much later western thought.
Powder foundation was huge in the 90s then died a slow death, chiefly because it was so bloody annoying to apply.
The Society Library, as readers of Ron Chernow's fine foundational biography of Hamilton know, played an outsize role in the run-up to the American Revolution, chiefly because it was one of the few educational institutions in New York that was outside the hold of the Crown or the Church.
Sam's promo videos went viral among the fighting community, chiefly because it wasn't quite clear whether he was being serious or completely taking the piss.
