Sentence examples for was devoted chiefly from inspiring English sources

From that time on, the industry was devoted chiefly to supplying foreign residents and tourists with ivory canes, card cases, and other objects.

But that program was devoted chiefly to music of Ms. Gosfield, including her "Lightheaded and Heavy-Hearted," a commissioned work in its premiere, expressively played by the Miami String Quartet.

The last 20 years of his life were devoted chiefly to philosophical and literary pursuits.

Cultivated by the Kanembu and Yedina, the polders are devoted chiefly to wheat.

Kropotkin's last years were devoted chiefly to writing a history of ethics, one volume of which was completed.

During the first years, the company's efforts were devoted chiefly to showing the full possibilities of radiotelegraphy.

Its last half-hour is devoted chiefly to letting the characters wreck the sets, and quite literally becomes a washout when the bathtub overflows.

The evidence of appellant and its witnesses is devoted, chiefly, to establishing the fact that appellant did not suspend business and was fully able to pay for the wheat contracted for.

According to Lewis Reportt of the Director, 1903-04, written for the Managing Committee of the American School of Archaeology in Palestine (which included representatives from both Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University), his own studies were "devoted chiefly to the topography of ancient Jerusalem.

And with a few exceptions (such as much of Volume 4, which is devoted chiefly to thickeners, gels, emulsions, and foams the trickiest of the new chef's tricks), my interest never flagged.

The best illustrations of the hall were published in the 1939 "Guide to the Museum" (Miner 1939) which states that "This hall is devoted chiefly to invertebrate biological principles, especially those concerned with the evolution of life.