Sentence examples for for a mainly from inspiring English sources

Scores of lawmakers plan to travel to New York on Friday for a mainly ceremonial joint meeting of Congress and the laying of a wreath at ground zero.

As the vice president for human resources of Miller & Long, a regional concrete construction company, Mr. Gladstone is responsible for a mainly immigrant work force.

Nowhere is this more shamefully true than in the United States, where roughly one in four prisoners is locked up for a (mainly non-violent) drugs offence.

The Stones had come to the States from England determined to play black R. & B. for a mainly white audience that did not know its Son House from its Howlin' Wolf.

In English the meaning of a sentence such as That's a cat can be changed from a statement to a question by the substitution of a mainly rising for a mainly falling intonation.

The reader felt the paper should have gone further into what she called the "real issue": Sharrock had made a film about disabled people as a non-disabled person, based on a book written by a non-disabled person, not starring any disabled people, for a mainly non-disabled audience.

According to Justice for Agriculture, a mainly white farmers' lobby, by 1995 whites still had 10.9m hectares.

For example, a mainly diagonal phylogenetic tree with one divergence constructed in the bracket style was coded as diagonal.

He did that for a while ("mainly shampoos, sometimes some colouring, I love being around women").

Mr. Hillier said in a message that he had long been a fan of Yahoo's photo feature "for a while, mainly from a sociological standpoint".

He had a job at a liquor store for a while, mainly so he could sneak into the back room to drink.