Sentence examples for chiefly in order from inspiring English sources

But he lived in conscious pursuit of his own "chills and fever, passions and betrayals, / Chiefly in order to make song of them".

With them was a young fiddler, Dale Troy "Stoney" Cooper, who took the job, he confessed later, chiefly in order to hang out with three attractive teenage girls.

Wang responded with a couple of essays, insisting that the young critic was going after famous people, Red Guards style, chiefly in order to make his name.

Indeed, he demarcates the category of the analytic chiefly in order to contrast it with what he regards as the more important category of the "synthetic," which he famously thinks is not confined, as one might initially suppose, merely to the empirical.

He mentions his power of refusal chiefly in order to show that, in some technical sense, that power does exist.

Mr Ford is the brother of the family's present patriarch, Harold Ford, who was Tennessee's first black congressman and is now running his brother's campaign chiefly, say some, in order to bring down Mr Herenton.The rivalry between the mayor and the Ford family has grown especially bitter in recent weeks.

A 1953 government report on mountain areas stated that its aims were chiefly to promote Mandarin in order to strengthen a national outlook and create good customs.

The scheme is festooned with carrots, chiefly easy terms for poor students, in order to forestall a revolt by the government's nominal supporters in Parliament.Critics say the new fees will create an unmanageable debt burden.

The army has long called the shots in the country's budget, partly because it was chiefly the army that kept the country in order.

Marius intrigued against his commander in order to gain a consulship; he was elected (chiefly with the help of the equites and antiaristocratic tribunes) for 107 and was given charge of the war by special vote of the people.

Before the 1990s she drew chiefly on what Holroyd calls "her autobiographical capital," novels she herself said were written in order "to make sense of my upbringing... to discover what was going on in my family".