Sentence examples for the chief item from inspiring English sources

The cost of the army, 4 million rubles annually, was the chief item in Russia's budget.

The chief item in the development program was a plan to devote 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of land to the production of peanuts (the Groundnuts Scheme).

The chief items of Church expenditure were as follows, viz.:a State outlay for Church.

Interestingly, arsenic, the controversial ingredient, was one of the chief items sent by the Society of Apothecaries of London to India, St . Helena Bencoolen (west coast of Sumatra), and Canton as medicine in the nineteenth century.

However, it is clear that the monasteries, chief items in Sikkim's meager architectural heritage, were the hardest hit buildings in the quake.

HOTEL OPERATORS FAIL.; The Normandie in Philadelphia is Chief Item in Assets.

Archives|HOTEL OPERATORS FAIL.; The Normandie in Philadelphia is Chief Item in Assets.

Her intervention came on the penultimate day of a first round of talks in Geneva between the government and opposition delegations that has seen unexpected progress on a ceasefire, a patchy extension of humanitarian aid inside Syria, but almost no progress on the chief agenda item opening a dialogue about Syria's political future.

In September, Iraq will once again be Congress's chief item of business, when Gen. David Petraeus delivers his state-of-the-war report.

RESERVE'S ASSETS DECLINE $71,200,000 $151,300,0000 Drop in Discounts Is Chief Item in Loss of Earning Resources.

Archives|RESERVE'S ASSETS DECLINE $71,200,000 $151,300,0000 Drop in Discounts Is Chief Item in Loss of Earning Resources.