Sentence examples for chiefly white from inspiring English sources

The audience for Ms. Rambo's style of Southern gospel is chiefly white.

Many saw the professions as the province of the privileged — chiefly white, primarily Anglo- Saxon in lineage, largely male.

Even with a growing deluge of urban (chiefly white) newcomers to Washington, the District's population is still, as of the 2010 census, around 50.7% African-American.

(The title of Blow's column, "The Other Obama Legacy," acknowledges as much). Chiefly white opponents of the first black president view him as immeasurable in another way: an utter failure, an abomination or something worse.

George C. Wolfe, who directed and is a co-author of the book for "The Wild Party," said that he considered minstrelsy to be chiefly about white people, not black people, "as a theatrical form in which we venture inside a certain kind of white American psyche".

Tourists hauled in off the Copacabana beach could have given her lessons; but it was up to her editors, chiefly Katharine White and later Howard Moss, to puzzle out her meanings and clarify her unintentional ambiguities.

The development of the painted decoration on a matt, but still luminous and highly reflective (chiefly kaolinitic) white ground, applied after firing, was a key factor for the enrichment of the palette in hue, saturation and brightness.

South Africa's first AIDS cases emerged in the early 1980's, chiefly among gay white men who presumably contracted the virus through homosexual contacts in the United States and Europe.

Easiest to see through a large telescope would be its atmospheric features, chiefly the swirling white cloud patterns of midlatitude and tropical storms, ranged in roughly latitudinal belts around the planet.

However, the history of Democratic primaries is also filled with would-be reformers who fell short because they chiefly appealed to white voters — and that is who dominates Ms. Warren's audiences, even in a heavily black city like Memphis.

Initially investigators believed that interleukins were made chiefly by leukocytes (white blood cells) to act primarily on other leukocytes, and for this reason they named them interleukins, meaning "between leukocytes". Because leukocytes are involved in mounting immune responses, interleukins were thought to function only as modulators of immune functions.