Sentence examples for were primarily engaged from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the 20th century the people of Mongolia were primarily engaged in the subsistence herding of livestock.

In an interview in his office here, Prachanda sought to allay fears, saying that the excesses had been tempered and that the youths were primarily engaged in directing traffic and planting trees.

Given the scale of the crisis, Volcker viewed the taxpayer-funded recapitalization of the banking system as unavoidable, but he didn't like the additional supportive measures for Wall Street firms that were primarily engaged in the business of trading.

Dr. Carlson's paper was published at a time when personality researchers were primarily engaged in the study of mood, thinking and perception, conducting experiments that did not take the psychology of the individual test subjects into account.

In all three of the disputes highlighted, doctors were primarily engaged in defending perceived self-interest against the public: in 1947 their right to remain independent in the face of universal healthcare and in 1975, the consultants' right to use NHS resources for personal gain.

Currently, there are approximately 7,000 child and adolescent psychiatrists in the United States and, when we began CAPTN in 2003, only a handful were primarily engaged in clinical research.

And the gluteus maximus, the largest muscle in the human body, is primarily engaged only during running.

Under current law, tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organizations are supposed to be "primarily" engaged in social welfare work.

But, in enforcing the law, the I.R.S. decided they need only be "primarily" engaged in social welfare, not exclusively.

It was primarily engaged in the production, refining, marketing, and shipping of crude oil and natural gas.

To receive such status, according to the I.R.S., a group must be "primarily engaged in the promotion of social welfare".