Sentence examples for given chiefly from inspiring English sources

The name lark is also given, chiefly because of habitat, to several birds belonging to other families.

Another aspect of the Islamic theatre was represented in the shadow plays, which were given chiefly to pass the time during the month of fasting, Ramadan (the sacred ninth month of the Muslim year).

Still, adjuvant oxaliplatin-based therapy is often given, chiefly because the risk of recurrence is high.

Mr. Plouffe said the committee was getting "a lot more from the Washington corporate community" -- meaning lobbyists -- as well as an increase in gifts from wealthy Democrats who in the past gave chiefly to presidential and Senate candidates.

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AMERICANS WORSHIP WITH AUSTRALIANS; Sunday for the Visiting Fleet Is Given Over Chiefly to Church Services.

These men are to be given treatment, chiefly group therapy, until they are judged no longer dangerous.

By this time the often crowded Yuan patterns had given way chiefly to dragons or floral motifs of great clarity and grace, vigorously applied in a thick, deep-blue pigment to dishes, vases, stem cups, and flattened pilgrim jars.

I wanted to be able to prove I could do it with the big boys, and I can!" Her triumph in such a short time is the more remarkable given the chiefly male camaraderie of the comedy circuit and the macho traditions of Newcastle in particular.

The spark dies.' He approached the Home Office, and was allowed to set up the Arthur Koestler Award (now Koestler Trust) to give prizes chiefly for art (but also for other creative activity) to prisoners, detainees and 'patients' in special hospitals such as Broadmoor.

Birth tourism is nothing new and not an exclusively Chinese phenomenon, either but while it's often said that Chinese women travel to America to give birth chiefly to obtain citizenship and passports for their children, many also seek better and cheaper health care and to avoid fines for having extra children.