Sentence examples for this was chiefly from inspiring English sources

The Diet did not initiate important legislation; this was chiefly the function of the executive.

Though Hannibal still maintained himself for some years in southern Italy, this was chiefly due to the exhaustion of Rome.

This was chiefly because the world had changed and countries had stirred, but Iran remained in the same state in which it had been.

Whatever, this was chiefly an excuse for the presenter, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, to gaze distractedly at experts, of the Rospa and scientific and Which?

This was chiefly evident in the works of the Flemish school of 17th-century painters among them Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.

This was chiefly because neither of the leading politicians of the day, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, cared to affront Queen Victoria's implacable opposition to the women's movement.

This is chiefly because Menand usually does get it right, sometimes brilliantly so.

This is chiefly due to the steep fees that AOL pays cable operators.

This is chiefly thanks to "swaps", exports of oil that are balanced by imports of it.

And it's silly to say this is chiefly a communications or optics problem.

And this is chiefly because governments have arranged things that way.