Sentence examples for chiefly for a from inspiring English sources

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Adams found it "short, written with some elegance, and remarkable chiefly for a significant threat of reform".

One year the drama teachers got a little ambitious, and put on a play about the Crimean war; the exact title escapes me, but I remember it chiefly for a line another kid forgot to say – "What's all that shouting about?" – which is still burned onto my memory circuits.

The director Hazanavicius was previously known chiefly for a couple of spy film spoofs — OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies and OSS117: Lost In Rio – which I thought were very funny, but gave no clue as to the masterpiece that lay ahead.

The Rev. Louis A. Saunders, who spent half a century as such a quietly dedicated minister, missionary and religious official that he became known chiefly for a single, instinctive act of Christian duty, died on April 5 at his home in suburban Dallas.

Your applicant may be looking chiefly for a meaningful career opportunity, with great pay and benefits — so, why not lead with that?

In fact, her short and meteoric career seems to have been notable chiefly for a series of gaffes delivered with the cheeriness of the truly dangerous.

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This was notable chiefly for an interesting translation from the French of Francois Villon - "Well, much snows have melted since yesteryear".

In other words, don't expect surprises in a film "notable chiefly for feeding a stereotype of blacks as shiftless layabouts interested mainly in recreational drugs and irresponsible sex" (Van Gelder).

Among a Booker Prize longlist notable chiefly for containing a great many established writers and few surprises, the name Jon McGregor stands out as refreshingly unfamiliar.

He faces more than a century in prison chiefly for sharing a hyperlink, allegedly, to cancelled credit card data from the Stratfor hack, which landed five million of the Austin-based intelligence firm's emails on WikiLeaks.

Until recently Klop, whose nickname meant "Bedbug", was remembered chiefly for running a German news agency in London after the second world war.

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