Sentence examples for is caused chiefly from inspiring English sources

Emphysema, which is caused chiefly by smoking, may enlarge them so much that their owners are scarcely able to breathe without relying on bottled oxygen.Modern surgery has a procedure for dealing with these two diseases: remove the old organ and put in a new one.

The response time of coloration decreases with temperatures, which is caused chiefly by the temperature dependence of an ionic conductivity of the PSE.

They are thought to be caused chiefly by persistent local offshore winds, such as the foehn, or katabatic (downward-driving), winds typically found off the coasts of Greenland and Antarctica.

The crisis has been caused chiefly by Edison's and PG&E's inability to pass on price increases to consumers.Mr Davis has made all this much worse, first through his inaction and now, quite possibly, through his actions.

8 27 As a result, most radon related lung cancers, which are caused chiefly by the lower radon levels experienced by most of the population, have not been addressed.

SSSIs are caused chiefly by Gram-positive organisms, and are increasing in incidence mainly because of aging of the general population, increases in the numbers of critically ill and immunocompromised patients, and the emergence of multiresistant pathogens.

The form of filariasis known as filariasis malayi closely resembles bancroftian filariasis in its symptoms and pathological changes; it is caused by Brugia malayi, found chiefly in the Far East.

Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in adults, an element of the TMA syndromes, is caused by a severe ADAMTS13 activity deficiency chiefly through anti-ADAMTS13 auto-antibodies.

Most of the damage worldwide is caused by a relatively small number of species, chiefly rats and mice.

Microcephaly is characterised by a reduced occipitofrontal circumference (OFC) of the head that is at least 4 standard deviations (SD) and is caused by congenital insufficiency during fetal brain development, which chiefly affects the cerebral cortex.

This development could chiefly be caused by the strong NBR-Sx-GS-Sx-NBR restrictions provided in addition to the primary NBR-Sx-NBR networks (see Fig. 4 above).