Sentence examples for principally cities from inspiring English sources

All countries are faced with the reality that, between now and 2050, three billion people are likely to settle in urban areas, principally cities.

Without the institutions that Kirstein put at Balanchine's disposal, principally City Ballet and its School of American Ballet, many a Balanchine masterpiece would surely have gone the way of his "Cotillon," "Baiser de la Fée" and "Balustrade" — ballets loved in their day but lost before City Ballet was founded.

The adjustment will increase the numbers of minority residents -- principally inner-city blacks and rural Hispanics, who are often missed by traditional census methods.

The government brought gangs of armed men to Kiev from other cities, principally Kharkiv and Donetsk.

The 30 kilometer exclusion zone established around Chernobyl in 1986 required the evacuation of more than 120,000 people, principally in the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat.

The vast majority of the city's homicides occur in the principally black inner-city, and the bulk of suicides in the mostly white suburbs.

The lord mayor chairs meetings, but the role is otherwise principally ceremonial; a city manager performs the executive functions.

The game is principally split between city management and tactical combat.

However, they continued their peregrinations every Sunday and also other activities, principally in the city of Havana.

But those drivers and the people who profit from them in cities -- principally garage owners, automobile clubs and road builders -- have had tremendous political influence over the years.

Ghent-Bruges school, group of manuscript illuminators and scribes active during the last quarter of the 15th and first part of the 16th centuries, principally in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges.