Sentence examples for chiefly it from inspiring English sources

Chiefly, it is down to the idea that achievement and competition are all important.

It is overfished, chiefly, it is true, in coastal waters, but also in the great expanses that belong to no state.

Coinciding with these developments, Fidel Castro's surprise reappearance on Cuban state television — chiefly, it seemed, to warn of the risks of a nuclear war in the festering U.S. confrontations with Iran and North Korea — left most observers puzzled.

Anglo American, one of the biggest, has an 11% holding in Nautilus (and 45% in De Beers), chiefly, it says, to keep abreast of the possibilities of seabed mining.

The word "this" encompasses a number of things: it means wearing a skirt and having manicured nails; it means giving up an established stage name; but chiefly, it means identifying as a woman.

However, the rule has limitations — chiefly, it could be changed or revoked under a new White House administration in 2017.

It does, chiefly because it reminded me that Liverpool drew at home to Fulham.

Partly because it was hateful; chiefly because it was false.

Where they revelled in strange imagery for its own sake, Freud saw value in it chiefly insofar as it could be interpreted.

It is rejected in traditional Christian belief, chiefly because it is thought to contravene the prohibition of murder in the Ten Commandments.

VolcanoBot 1, however, ran into some obstacles, chiefly that it didn't move as well as the team wanted, and it only made it down 82 feet before it reached the end of its tether.