Meanwhile, European noises about other energy sources, and murmurs about renegotiating long-term contracts, just like Russia's schemes for pipelines to China, are designed chiefly to finesse the terms of an inevitably deepening partnership.
With growth slowing, Mr Xi's patriotic doctrine looks as if it is designed chiefly to serve as a new source of legitimacy for the Communist Party.
Although the pilot studies were designed chiefly to test safety, they ended up showing significant benefit.
Given their relatively limited range, these systems were designed chiefly to fight a theater nuclear war in Europe.
The comparatively small size of the Odeum is easily accounted for, not only because the space required in the theatre for the evolutions of the Chorus was not wanted here; but also because it appears to have been originally designed chiefly for musical rehearsals, in subordination to the great choral performances in the theatre, and consequently a much smaller space was required for the audience.
Pioneer, any of the first series of unmanned U.S. space probes designed chiefly for interplanetary study.
Designed chiefly for use against tanks and fortified positions at short ranges (up to 600 yards), the bazooka surprised the Germans when it was first used in the North African landings of 1942.
In particular, the conversation pieces designed chiefly for homes generated a wide audience for literary art, especially Shakespearean art.
However, the robots we have seen in the past century have been chiefly stationary robots and were designed for static environments.
The peeper is designed for 1 m depth profile with spatial resolution of 1/5.5 cm and the practical temporal resolution, that chiefly depends on sediment characteristics, is 1/3 weeks.
