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.
They chiefly serve their own interests, acting with impunity and taking political orders from the top.
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.
1– 3 It is also able to potentiate neuroplasticity and is a natural precursor of phospholipid synthesis, chiefly phosphatidylcholine, or rather serves as a choline source in the metabolic pathways for biosynthesis of acetylcholine.
Instead, that budget serves as a nonbinding blueprint for the committees — chiefly the Ways and Means and Finance panels — to write the legislation that Mr. Obama would sign into law.
Though Serge holds the foreground, it's plain from early on that the novel is chiefly structured by the idea of transmission and reception, which serves as a metaphor for, among many other things, and very roughly speaking, an implied relationship between language, technology and subjectivity.
The vegetation consists chiefly of coconut palms, which were formerly cultivated for copra on plantations; on North Keeling and Horsburgh islands, coarse grass serves as a ground cover.
Earthen mounds serves as barricades.
Though his music serves as a solid, if recessed, bedrock of American popular song, as a man Berlin was known to the public chiefly through his songs.
For example, there have been a number of puzzling discoveries: chiefly, while a protein is known to serve as a universal and essential factor in a fundamental biological process, its mutation, or gain or loss of function can yield a very specific outcome.
