The name Africa, however, was chiefly applied to the northern coast of the continent, which was, in effect, regarded as a southern extension of Europe.
The name jasper is from the Greek iaspis, of Semitic origin; in ancient writings the term was chiefly applied to translucent and brightly coloured stones, particularly chalcedony, but also was applied to the opaque jasper.
For example, they figure prominently in the arguments for extending Title IX requirements for equal opportunity in education to science training programs (Rolison 2000, Zare 2006), that had, in the past, chiefly been applied to inequities in support for women's sports.
The former are chiefly applied with the aim to detect overall relations between spatial distance and genetic difference with the help of special descriptors of covariation.
From the 1st century ad onward the word in its Syriac form (magusai) was applied to magicians and soothsayers, chiefly from Babylonia, with a reputation for the most varied forms of wisdom.
It would be better applied to a meeting which is not chiefly a festival of self-congratulation and, as in Genoa's particular case, a public-relations disaster.
Local consortia, comprising chiefly of individual Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), and local authorities formally applied to the Department of Health to be provider sites for FNP and expressed willingness to participate in the randomised trial.
In modern usage, the terms parchment and vellum may be applied to a type of paper of high quality made chiefly from wood pulp and rags and frequently having a special finish.
The term tree cotton is also sometimes applied to floss obtained from Gossypium arboreum, a plant species growing chiefly in Asia.
Mrs. Reed and her former husband, Cecil, from whom she was divorced in 1958, applied to a court to administer their son's small estate, which consisted chiefly of a clarinet, phonograph records, clothes and $495 in a savings account.
This approach has been applied to data obtained from positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) experiments on several systems, chiefly a small bladed solids mixer.
