Although widespread, Augustus' wars chiefly affected the frontier districts.
Ore minerals, chiefly sulfides and oxides, are widespread in pegmatites but rarely are abundant.
Questions have arisen not only about the exact meaning of these claims but also about their consistency with widespread beliefs about human beings, chiefly the belief that they usually act freely and responsibly and should be held accountable for their actions.
That's changed, she says, chiefly thanks to the realisation that private tuition is so widespread: the industry's best-known client is Tony Blair, whose teenage children all had private lessons to supplement their state-school education.Such parents are the first kind of customer.
Electron microscopy of fractured surfaces reveals widespread fiber/matrix interface debonding and fiber pullout, which chiefly contribute to cyclic cracking resistance.
This has led some scholars, chiefly Alexander Vasiliev and George Ostrogorsky, to regard Thomas's revolt as an expression of widespread discontent among the rural population, which suffered under heavy taxation.
Although poker had a brief vogue in British court circles in the 1870s, its widespread acceptance in Great Britain and on the Continent came chiefly in the decade 1911 20 and was undoubtedly much influenced by the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.
Cultivation of rye, wheat, buckwheat, barley, and flax is chiefly concentrated on the uplands and around Slutsk in the south, and dairying is widespread.
The ComEA family is chiefly present in Low GC Gram-positive bacteria and actinobacteria, whereas the polysaccharide export family is more widespread and widely present in proteobacteria, cyanobacteria, acidobacteria, planctomycetes, bacteroidetes/chlorobi, and more sporadically in a few other groups.
The culinary traditions of Italy proudly bear several ancestries, chiefly Etruscan, Greek, and Saracen: to the Etruscans is owed the heavy use of grain, to the Greeks the widespread presence of herb-cooked fish, and to the Saracens the country's love of pastries, rice, and citrus fruits.
