It's just that in this case, as in so many others, people's reluctance to "judge" is often chiefly exercised as an excuse to avoid uncomfortable facts.
When, shortly before his death, he wrote asking about Ada's upbringing, Annabella had this to report: "Not devoid of imagination, but is chiefly exercised in connection with her mechanical ingenuity".
Within and among these regions, a complex mosaic of great chiefly houses exercised power to varying degrees, though not with the virtual autonomy that some historians have suggested.
Most agricultural colleges still teach soil fertility chiefly as an exercise in applying inorganic chemical fertilizer, while overlooking soil's biological role (and its carbon content).
Michael Ballack, Craig Burley and Roberto Martinez have reinforced the Europeanness of the whole exercise – chiefly by being, well, European – while Steve McManaman, Ian Darke and all the other Englishmen on set have provided the critical non-EU member state perspective (sorry, too early?).
Mr. Sanders and his advisers dismiss the importance of his win-loss record during primary season — "It's not a baseball game," he said — and say he is treating the midterms chiefly as an exercise in movement-building.
Walking is not a great leg builder and is chiefly a cardiovascular exercise.
This control is exercised chiefly through the sacraments and the regulations affecting their administration.
A fact that will not startle any professional journalist in India is that the nation's mainstream news media are firmly in the grip of corporations, which exercise control chiefly through direct or indirect ownership of news outlets and advertising budgets.
It appears most probable that the Palaestrae were, during the flourishing times of the Greek republics, chiefly appropriated to the exercises of wrestling and of the pancratium, and were principally intended for the athletae, who, it must be recollected, were persons that contended in the public games, and therefore needed special training.
He also resents her frequent visits to Northern Ireland, chiefly devoted to bridge-building exercises between the two communities.If loyalists cannot march down O'Connell Street in safety, a state visit by the British monarch, which had been under active preparation, suddenly seems less likely to take place as well.
