Sentence examples for chiefly from a from inspiring English sources

Well, chiefly from a writer's own experiences – the fictional author Peter Van Houten in Green's The Fault in Our Stars reads like a clever nod to this fact.

Knowledge of Baal's personality and functions derives chiefly from a number of tablets uncovered from 1929 onward at Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), in northern Syria, and dating to the middle of the 2nd millennium bce.

Democrats respond that the budget shortfall results chiefly from a severe drop in revenue from taxes on capital gains and stock options from the market run-up of the late 1990's and that those lost revenues must be replaced with new taxes.

A common phrase even today in Russian is na khalyavu, "for free", from the Hebrew khalav, "milk", because "milk money" was the name of donations for the Jewish community in Palestine.The second kind of slang, mat, is like a much more sophisticated version of the Chilean huevón words (see Tuesday)—an entire language derived chiefly from a handful of sexual swear-words.

The question now is whether China, South Korea and Taiwan could do to Japan what Japan did to America.Worries about the sustainability of Japan's lead stem chiefly from a belief among some executives and officials that Japanese firms are not doing as much as they could to realise the value of their technology.

Labarnas is known chiefly from a later Hittite text called the Edict of Telipinus, which states that from his capital, Kussara, in central Anatolia, Labarnas extended his territory south to the Mediterranean coast and installed his sons as governors in a number of conquered cities, such as Tuwanuwa, Hupisna, Landa, and Lusna (perhaps the classical Tyana, Cybistra, Laranda, and Lystra).

For 16 years, though well liked personally, Mr Khan attracted support chiefly from an insignificant bunch of educated youngsters.

B. Lev, "Intangibles: Management, Measurement and Reporting" (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001) discusses intangibles chiefly from an accounting perspective.

Some people talk loudly of the increase of liberality of sentiment upon religious subjects since the war, but I suspect that this boasted catholicism arises chiefly from an indifference acquired since the war to religion itself.

Government revenue is derived chiefly from mining concessions, a value-added tax, import and export duties, excise taxes, a petroleum products tax, and taxes on commercial transactions and production.

The savings are expected to come chiefly from spending cuts, a ceiling on pensions and reductions in welfare benefits.