Sentence examples for chief activity from inspiring English sources

Because investment banking was then the chief activity of the big banks, this was a very big deal.

Their chief activity, though, is oohing and cooing at the obscene luxury that's laid on for them.

A recent widower, Mr. D'Arcy spends as many nights in the Stone Hut as he can each winter and is proficient not only in stoking the wood stove but also in the cabin's other chief activity, storytelling.

The chief activity of "the Governor" is as president of the Empire State Bldg With vice-president Robert C. Brown, and the treasurer J. H. Tarry, he really runs the place.

As a singular demonic force or personification of evil, the devil's chief activity was to tempt man to act in such a way that he would not achieve his supraterrestrial destiny.

Although he maintained these administrative responsibilities until his retirement in 1947, his chief activity was always research; the details of managing the observatory, as well as much of the teaching, were left to others.

She said that reading is one of the chief activities in Sweden, along with talking, dancing & committing suicide.

With his Harlem move he has also raised hopes that one of his chief activities will be to serve as an advocate for the nation's cities.

The city's glittering beauty – feminised for even more affective power – depends on a suspension of one of its chief activities: combustion.

In the 20th century, disaster relief became one of the chief activities of the International Red Cross, originally organized in the 1860s to aid the victims of war.

Mr. Hannah's new book is a strenuously pulpy series of vignettes from the lower strata of a small Mississippi town where fishing, drinking, fornicating and fighting are the chief activities.