The partnership agreement includes restrictions on selling certain shares that the partners own, chiefly the ones they receive as compensation while they are partners.
It's an image that evokes another army, likewise intimidating, although this one's composed chiefly of sedentary men, white-haired and bespectacled.
This one comes from an acquaintance, who would prefer to remain anonymous, chiefly because he fears retribution if his name is known.
Coding was done chiefly by one researcher, in consultation with the other two researchers on the team.
Unlike most so-called galas, this one was not a benefit for an arts organization or charity and had several backers, chiefly a Russian business conglomerate.
He attributed it chiefly to one failed romantic encounter after another.
What an experience it is to see it again, a movie whose vivid evocation of New York bears comparison to Scorsese but which I now realise I remember chiefly from one single scene.
For comedy-watchers of my vintage, The Good Life was notable chiefly for one thing only: it was the icon of bourgeois entertainment that, in 1983, was ripped to shreds by Vyvyan the punk in The Young Ones, the anarchic student sitcom that first pitched Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall and co into the nation's living rooms.
And then there's the matter of management and money, which in the case of the privately held Virgin Group resides chiefly in one man: Richard Branson, boss and banker, rolled into one -- even if he does have big money men as personal investors.
"Selfish: lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure".
