They chiefly serve their own interests, acting with impunity and taking political orders from the top.
The modern town of Wadi Mūsā, situated adjacent to the ancient city, chiefly serves the steady stream of tourists who continue to visit the site.
And in 2007, Dominion East Ohio, which chiefly serves Cleveland and northeast Ohio, initiated a 25-year, $2.7 billion program to replace 4,000 miles of pipe.
It's a familiar story, this, with the gambling industry either succumbing to, or imposing on itself, new rules that chiefly serve to highlight everything they'll still be allowed to do.
But the prospect that children's rights will remain merely aspirational – while military and mine-related activity continues to violate their rights, and while modernization of laws and practices chiefly serves multinational foreign investors – is a menacing one.
A biomedical extension to the online preprint repository arXiv, which chiefly serves the physical science community and operates without official peer review, may facilitate this transition in the future.
The Medicaid programme must now achieve savings mostly by cutting spending for hospitals that chiefly serve the poor.Another "windfall" victim was a legislated recalculation of the consumer price index to correct its over-statement of inflation, a move which would have helped to curb the rise in entitlement costs.
If there is a raid, police find only a few counterfeit samples in a sea of cheap nonbranded goods, the latter chiefly serving as a cover.
With growth slowing, Mr Xi's patriotic doctrine looks as if it is designed chiefly to serve as a new source of legitimacy for the Communist Party.
