Sentence examples for better chiefly from inspiring English sources

It was, amazingly, even better, chiefly because the steak had been cut about an eighth of an inch thicker (we measured), which allowed for more contrast between the exterior and interior.

COMING off one of the worst years ever for the housing market, Connecticut has reason to be hopeful that 2010 will be better — chiefly because it is hard to imagine the economy sliding precipitously enough for sales to fall still further.

We know that a model by Traeger is by far the more popular and widely distributed, but we think this is a lot better chiefly because we like the controller better.

Recently, Mr. James said, the D.W.P. has been a better landlord, but chiefly as a result of lawsuits and negotiated settlements with local and state officials, including a recent agreement to return water to the lower Owens River.

The companies dispute the estimates of their subsidies and say that their advantages over rivals stem chiefly from better management.

European policymakers generally distinguish "economic migrants" (often sub-Saharan Africans) who are supposedly moving "only" to get benefits or better jobs, from "refugees" (chiefly Syrian) fleeing the immediate perils of war.

A second interview with Ben Affleck – off the couches and over to the large, angry-looking dining table this time – was better, but that was chiefly down to Affleck's lacerating honesty about his own failed acting career and the genuine, Boston-bred anger he displayed when discussing Deflategate, which he described as "the ultimate fucking bullshit outrage in sports".

This work was undertaken as a contribution to the NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) field campaign, chiefly to better understand changes in related hydrologic and biogeochemical mechanisms in the years following boreal forest wildfires.

Having compared the quality of health services across Europe, his firm concludes that countries relying primarily on insurance, like France, Germany and the Netherlands, do better than those that rely chiefly on tax, like Britain, Italy and Spain which also happen to spend less on health relative to GDP (see chart 3).

The taskforce has ten recommendations about how to avoid regulatory creep: they chiefly amount to better consultation and clearer thinking.

The Atlanta-based independent record label Dust-to-Digital is chiefly known, for better and for worse, for its 2003 gospel box set "Goodbye, Babylon".