Sentence examples for chiefly engaged from inspiring English sources

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

Heading the administration of Pomerania from March 1918 to April 1919, Michaelis was later chiefly engaged in Protestant church organizations and projects for student welfare.

Oaxaca is one of Mexico's most ethnically diverse states, with a large concentration of indigenous groups who are chiefly engaged in subsistence farming.

The generation of Kazakh writers active at that time, including Omar Qarashuwlï and Ahmed Bay Tursunov (Aqmet Baytūrsyn-ulï), were chiefly engaged in pedagogic and political activities.

The NRA was chiefly engaged in drawing up industrial codes for companies to adopt and was empowered to make voluntary agreements with companies regarding hours of work, rates of pay, and prices to charge for their products.

Notaries in England and Wales are lawyers who are chiefly engaged in authenticating signatures and commercial and private documents for use outside the United Kingdom; they are authorized to practice in all areas of law but do not conduct court proceedings.

The communities, apart from Ulyanovsk, the oblast headquarters, are small and engaged chiefly in processing farm produce.

Dairying and forestry are both important, and the towns are engaged chiefly in processing agricultural produce and timber.

Towns are small (except for Bryansk, the capital) and engaged chiefly in processing farm products and in engineering.

Jews, who were chiefly urban dwellers, engaged in trade and moneylending and often contracted to collect royal taxes.

There are a number of indigenous peoples Even (Lamut), Yukaghir, Sakha (Yakut), and others, engaged chiefly in reindeer herding, fishing, and hunting.