Thus, the calcareous oozes include globigerina ooze, containing the shells of planktonic foraminifera, and pteropod ooze, made up chiefly of the shells of pelagic mollusks.
Of the population, Russians and Kazakhs constitute the largest majorities, with the remainder made up chiefly of Ukrainian, Uighur, Tatar, and German minorities.
The supposedly independent panel the government convened to review the report's findings was made up chiefly of bureaucrats, but one of the few academics on the panel held up the review by demanding a more thorough assessment of the project's social impact.
In the sector of Longwy, Sedan and Namur, where the Ardennes and the River Meuse the French Ninth Army and French Second Army were made up chiefly of poor quality divisions.
It is this danger that I chiefly remember - and the extraordinary sense that I was seeing something that was being made up on the spot.
The British, French, Germans and Russians, who made up the remainder of the Contact Group for the negotiations, were aware they were there chiefly to make up the numbers and eventually to commit resources to the implementation of a peace agreement.
More than two dozen words and phrases are banned for non-Muslims by a law that ostensibly seeks to prevent members of other religions, chiefly Christians, from trying to convert Muslims, who make up about 60 percent of Malaysia's population.
Mas̄navī, also spelled mas̄nawī, a series of distichs (couplets) in rhymed pairs (aa, bb, cc, and so on) that makes up a characteristic type of Persian verse, used chiefly for heroic, historical, and romantic epic poetry and didactic poetry.
The Walloons, who make up about one-third of the Belgian population, speak dialects of French and live chiefly in the south and east.
Some fear it may chiefly benefit a small moneyed elite, much as once-grassroots activities like football and Carnival, the quintessential samba festival, increasingly exclude the masses who make up its beating heart.
