Sentence examples for chiefly to be from inspiring English sources

But his answers, like most of the others', seemed designed chiefly to be whatever the listeners wanted to hear.

Is Graham Norton really worth all this money, critics ask, if his role is chiefly to be Auntie's leading supplier of spectacular plum duffs?

Perhaps this is because, although they may well recognize that the Iraq war is a disastrous misadventure, audiences nonetheless seek out movies chiefly to be entertained rather than to be lectured and propagandized by a collection of Hollywood film industry types whom they perceive as smug, self-righteous, overprivileged and somewhat decadent, and whose lives bear scant resemblance to their own.

At first, the Secretary of War, a Cabinet member who, from the start, was a civilian, was called the Secretary at War, a holdover from the Revolution but also a prepositional manifestation of an ideological commitment: the department was chiefly to be called upon only if the nation was at war.

This seems chiefly to be caused by a reduced rate of growth in the last two to four weeks of fetal life, for weights of babies born in 36 or 38 weeks in various parts of the world in various circumstances are said to be similar.

As James Madison observed, in a democratic society "the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended... from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents".

And even the idea of music as a thing that is chiefly there to be enjoyed rather than used turns out to be culturally limited.

We have used the term "psychosomatic" to refer to symptoms that are chiefly considered to be expressions of psychological stress rather than manifestations of organic disorders based on previous research in children [ 28, 29].

It is with farce that Bergson's remarks on comedy have the greatest connection and on which they seem chiefly to have been founded.

The author stresses that those chiefly to blame were Argentina's own politicians and officials, who pursued an insufficiently rigorous fiscal policy to sustain a fixed exchange rate.

A third baseman has to be chiefly concerned with catching or stopping the ball.