Sentence examples for chiefly against from inspiring English sources

Before Boko Haram started kidnapping and killing children, its murderous hatred was directed chiefly against the state.

Today, nomadic Arab tribes that once fought chiefly against black-skinned farmers have turned on one another.

His sarcastic epigrams (directed chiefly against the ruling classes, though he did not spare the blacks, mulattoes, or Indians) became increasingly bitter.

Old Comedy sometimes is called Aristophanic comedy, after its most famous exponent, whose 11 surviving plays include The Clouds (423 bc), a satire on the misuse of philosophical argument directed chiefly against Socrates, and The Frogs (405 bc), a satire on Greek drama directed chiefly against Euripides.

Among his core supporters there were several impoverished poets whose laments were chiefly against "people who go in cars" and "people for whom there are big shiny roads while the poor have nothing to eat".

At one time it was used chiefly against people suspected of being about to steal cars, but now the Metropolitan Police use it against the increasing numbers of pickpockets and handbag snatchers.

He followed his military success with a strong propaganda attack, chiefly directed against Gregory IX.

From 1604 to 1616 he was Admiral of the Narrow Seas, being chiefly engaged against pirates.

Fell is chiefly up against Mhairi Spence, a Scottish livewire whose mother makes kilts for a living and whose father, according to Spence, spends his working days up to his elbows in samples of norovirus.

Furthermore, the F-22's stealth contouring and radar absorbent materials are chiefly effective against high-frequency radars, usually found on other aircraft.

Although pneumococcal vaccines are available for prevention of disease, they are chiefly effective against sepsis and meningitis.