Sentence examples for chiefly on a from inspiring English sources

Lisbee is a stoic solipsist existing chiefly on a diet of grave self-questioning and ultra-idiomatic melody.

Consequently, television drew chiefly on a talent pool of individuals who had not achieved success in the more popular media and on the young and inexperienced who were years from reaching their potential.

Mark Green, the public advocate, said yesterday that his staff and the mayor's advisers were working together better than in the past, chiefly on a city initiative to enroll poor children in health insurance programs.

But she has endured a bit of a rough patch in recent weeks, and on Thursday, she fielded questions that focused chiefly on a campaign finance bill that the mayor has blasted because he says it would tear a loophole in the city's election spending rules, and a pedicab bill that he, unexpectedly, opted not to sign on Wednesday.

By the time he died in 1990, after a long, steady and hardworking career, he had become an American institution renowned, loved and revered around the world.Copland came upon his "voice of America" idiom in the 1940s and 1950s, and his considerable reputation rests chiefly on a handful of popular, accessible works from that period.

The problem of describing Pythagoreanism is complicated by the fact that the surviving picture is far from complete, being based chiefly on a small number of fragments from the time before Plato (c. 428 c. 348 bce) and on various discussions in authors who wrote much later most of whom were either Aristotelians or Neoplatonists (see below History of Pythagoreanism).

'What does your profession involve?' 'Chiefly, on-going maintenance.

A huge cast of characters brought that field into being, but Moore, while giving them their due, focusses chiefly on Robert FitzRoy, a British naval officer and a towering figure in the history of meteorology.

His book had already attracted the attention of Carroll, who noted that its poems "chiefly on children" included a sonnet addressed to Agnes Weld, a girl he would later photograph as Little Red Riding-Hood.

The mayor had spent almost $37 million by mid-July, chiefly on television advertising, a high-paid campaign staff and an aggressive canvassing operation, and he has vowed to spend $100 million or more, if need be.

It's a rangy and incomplete but pleasantly entertaining sort of show, focusing chiefly on images of a time before Long Island was so thoroughly suburban.