Sentence examples for he acted chiefly from inspiring English sources

From 1848 to 1861 he acted chiefly as assistant adjutant general.

In his famous ConningTower, he acted chiefly as anchor man in a game of snap-the-whip; he dug in hard & held fast while contributors came whistling along, a few of them gaining great spee as they flashed by.

"In this I acted chiefly as an amanuensis to my wife" (MacMinn et al. 1945, 79).

William C. Davis credits Johnston with the majority of the tactical decisions that led to the victory, judging that "Beauregard acted chiefly as a dime novel general, leading the charge of an individual regiment, riding along the line to cheer the troops, accepting the huzzas of the soldiers and complementing them in turn.

Traditionally, the Russian president controls foreign and security policy, and the prime minister acts chiefly as a manager of the economy.

Another stimulus is a lowering of plasma volume, which probably acts chiefly through receptors in the vascular system, particularly in the heart and in the carotid blood sinuses.

Natural selection acts chiefly among individuals within a species population, so individuals that are genetically better at catching prey, and so have a higher rate of survival or reproduction, propagate their genes at a higher rate.

Then your resume will act chiefly as a substantiating document, showcasing your skills, experience and fit for the position.

Alternatively, global hypomethylation may act chiefly to destabilize the genome.

Among them, IFN-γ produced from both subsets of T cells is considered as one of the most important element for mycobacteriocidal action [ 10], and cytotoxic T lymphocytes differentiated from the activated CD8+ T cells act chiefly at late stage of MTB infection [ 1, 11, 12].

After encouragement from Voltaire, he acted at the Comédie-Française in 1774 but returned to the provinces for further study, performing chiefly at Lyon.