Sentence examples for chiefly acquired from inspiring English sources

Since the infections associated with S. epidermidis are chiefly acquired during hospitalization, it is not surprising that they are increasingly resistant to antimicrobial drugs (10 ).

As a software investor focused on mid-sized technology companies, I meet many business owners in this segment who (unlike the executives at Microsoft!) don't recognize the signals that their company needs to grow in a new way — chiefly, by acquiring other companies that can fill holes in their product line or offer complementary products and services.

Alberti's weapons were chiefly words, but he also acquired a practical understanding of the arts.

Many of his early Sevillian paintings were acquired then by foreign (chiefly English) collectors.

The cult of the individual acquired such monstrous size chiefly because Stalin himself supported the glorification of his own person.

It developed commercial fishing, shipped agricultural products (particularly Concord grapes), and acquired diversified industry (now chiefly stainless steel).

It was chiefly in this way that the Community acquired not only the money necessary for the poor Jews and people without accounts abroad but also the funds it needed for its own, hugely expanded activities.

That's chiefly what attracted the notice of privately held CollegeClub.com, which acquired Campus24 in July for an undisclosed amount of stock.

The developing immune system, which depends chiefly on mother-derived humoral immunity during embryonic/fetal periods and acquired cellular and humoral immunity during neonatal periods, can be vulnerable to environmental toxicants such as EDCs (Holladay 1999; Holladay and Smialowicz 2000).

It was chiefly by establishing a reputation for integrity that Muller & Son has acquired & held on to a near corner in its field.

Eventually he acquired the patronage of a number of influential Abbasid magnates, chiefly the powerful commander-in-chief Mu'nis al-Muzaffar.