"Clearly we are not against all arms treaties," the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said several months ago, ticking off a short list of accords Mr. Bush thinks are a good idea, chiefly the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Marts says he was initially drawn to the idea of AfterShock chiefly because of the company's publisher and co-founder Joe Pruett, who Marts had worked with in the past and respected.
As a music critic and cultural theorist, he has concerned himself with these very ideas, chiefly in his 2011 book Retromania, an exploration of pop culture's obsession with its own past.
The idea that Aldeburgh was chiefly a platform for the music of its founder – Britten set it up, with his partner the tenor Peter Pears, and the writer Eric Crozier, in 1948 – is so out of date that it's worth mentioning only as a reminder.
Of course the rise of the Scottish Nationalists was critical, but chiefly because the idea of a Labour government dependent on the SNP fed into pre-existing fears, among English voters especially, that Labour's leader was weak and that the party could not be trusted with the economy.
The idea is that the loophole chiefly benefited the wealthy.
Behind the legitimation of both wars, however, lies a broad ideological investment in the idea of "just wars" -- chiefly, in practice, wars fought by the commercial democracies in the name of democracy, to advance their own interests without an unseemly overbalance of conspicuous selfishness.
The idea had been advanced by New Yorkers, chiefly Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of Manhattan.
But from the Labour-aligned left, too, there is a rising chorus of inanity focused on the idea that Labour failed this time chiefly because it surrendered to "Tory austerity".
Though Serge holds the foreground, it's plain from early on that the novel is chiefly structured by the idea of transmission and reception, which serves as a metaphor for, among many other things, and very roughly speaking, an implied relationship between language, technology and subjectivity.
