Sentence examples for primarily a form from inspiring English sources

So yes, religion is primarily a form of life, but it is one that needs belief to sustain it.

At the risk of being too much the philosopher, for me, film is primarily a form of popular communication, not art.

That might be valuable in an exploration of belief since it is often said that religion is caught rather than taught: the idea is that faith is primarily a form of life, which is only subsequently forged into a set of beliefs.

Fertility clinic websites are primarily a form of advertising.

Imperialism, from this perspective, is not primarily a form of political domination and economic exploitation but rather a paternalistic practice of government that exports "civilization" (e.g. modernization) in order to foster the improvement of native peoples.

It will be pointed out that the New Environmental Governance is not primarily a form of some sort of democratic participation but rather designed to improve state power in environmental politics.

First, to reduce the computational expense of sampling helices, which primarily adopt A-form conformations, we pre-assembled secondary structure elements in Rosetta.

Yeast produce no such structures and it has been suggested that the ascospores are primarily a survival form rather than a dispersal form [9]. Spores have been shown to be resistant to laboratory treatments such as exposure to ether vapor or temperature shock at 55°C [6], [11], but the relevance of these treatments to stresses in the natural environment is unclear.

Today the treatment of diabetes mellitus relies primarily on a form of human insulin that is made using recombinant DNA technology.

Cultural puritans might denounce the whole idea as a perverse extreme of reality TV, which in its Big Brother incarnation – a format also invented by the Dutch – was always designed primarily as a form of psychological torture for our sadistic viewing pleasure.

In what was seen primarily as a form of insurance if prices started to fall too quickly, OPEC ministers also agreed on automatic changes, up or down, of 500,000 barrels a day if oil prices moved outside a band of $22 to $28 per barrel.