Sentence examples for chiefly rest on from inspiring English sources

Advances chiefly rest on the ability to manipulate biological systems.

Howard Brookner's reputation chiefly rests on a documentary profile of novelist William S Burroughs, who he filmed in the writer's latter years – initially – while at New York University film school.

Lady Mary's literary reputation chiefly rests on 52 superb Turkish embassy letters, which she wrote after her return as the ambassador's wife in Constantinople, using her actual letters and journals as source material.

The find, carefully excavated to ensure proper dating, helps shore up the early arrival hypothesis, which chiefly rests on only a few, often-contested sites in the Americas.

Along with the fiction and the biographies on which his reputation chiefly rests, he produced a seemingly effortless stream of plays, translations, poems, travelogues, and essays — on subjects ranging from manuscripts to Moscow theatre.

has not found much favor among prehistorians, chiefly because it rests on the unproven, though admittedly exciting assumption of the existence of a sophisticated caste of highly educated astronomerpriests.

Dr. Baker's views on sperm competition, though different from those of most primatologists, rest on important biological data -- chiefly the collection of intimate secretions from many assenting couples -- that so far only he has obtained.

These rest on two pillars.

Never rest on your laurels!

Never rest on an incline.

Cajetan's fame rests chiefly on his difficult but profound commentary on the Summa.