Sentence examples for chiefly occupied from inspiring English sources

While his early work was devoted to number theory and analysis, after 1900 he was chiefly occupied with probability theory.

During the last 25 years of his life, Humboldt was chiefly occupied with writing Kosmos, one of the most ambitious scientific works ever published.

For this birthday he and his wife, Norris Church, are planning a small party for friends at their house in Brooklyn, now chiefly occupied by various Mailer offspring.

Though he continued to paint other subjects, as court painter he was chiefly occupied in portraying members of the royal family and their entourage, and he painted numerous portraits of Philip IV during the course of his life.

After 1885 Dobson was chiefly occupied with biographical and critical works: books on Henry Fielding, Thomas Bewick, Richard Steele, Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole, William Hogarth, Samuel Richardson, and Fanny Burney revealed careful research into, and sympathy with, 18th-century life.

Messi and Javier Zanetti, Inter's veteran left-back and his fellow Argentina international, may have exchanged affectionate kisses as the teams shook hands before the kick-off, but thereafter Barcelona's No10 spent the early stages of the match drifting away from his compatriot, who found himself chiefly occupied with the advances of Pedro.

The sedentary population chiefly occupies climatically and topographically favourable regions in southern and northwestern Somalia, where rain-fed agriculture is possible and irrigation agriculture can be practiced along the rivers.

These data contrasted slightly with results from a degradomics study, which identified a minority of caspase-2 substrates in which non-asparatate residues (chiefly glutamate) occupied the P4 position, although these substrates tended to be less sensitive to caspase-2 than proteins with aspartates at P4 [ 41].

The city's Lowtown, between high cliffs and the river, is occupied chiefly by railroad yards and wharves; its Hightown, atop a steep incline, is largely residential.

During the early medieval centuries, Florence was occupied chiefly by outsiders: first by Ostrogoths in the 5th century, then by Byzantines in the 6th century, and eventually by Langobards, or Lombards.

It has a triclinic framework structure with silicon and aluminum in tetrahedral (fourfold) coordination, which forms relatively large void spaces (i.e., crystallographic sites) occupied chiefly by sodium cations.