The president's declaration that he fully expected Mr. Hussein to resist the United Nations mandates was the closest he has come to a public acknowledgment that he is going through the paces at the United Nations chiefly to build diplomatic support and avoid accusations that his administration is unilateralist and scorns its allies.
My soil is built chiefly with objets trouvés — and I'm looking for the right stuff all year round.
This was not merely a semantic difference; as one highway promoter said, "the highways of America are built chiefly of politics".
The Garden was built chiefly for boxing matches but turned out to attract other sports, the Circus, the Bolshoi Ballet, Lawrence Welk, various crusades.
The Church of St. Peter, a Baroque structure thought to be standing on the site of a church founded by Charlemagne in 792, was built chiefly by the architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt in 1702 33.
The 1,800km Grand Canal, started in 486BC, was built chiefly to move grain to the capital, but will now become part of the great South-North Water-Transfer Project, intended to slake the thirst of China's arid regions.
The states where it was most abundant considered it a nuisance, chiefly because it built large nests or mounds, a foot or more high, which could hamper the operation of farm machinery, but only two listed it among the twenty most important insect pests, and these placed it near the bottom of the list.
As fire storms swept through cities built chiefly of wood San Francisco, California, in 1851 and 1906; Chicago, Illinois, in 1871; Boston in 1872 insurers and officials discouraged tall wooden buildings in favor of less combustible material.
But Abramoff's resurrection is being built chiefly on his atonement for just one aspect of his criminal record: the corruption of public officials.
