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This book is chiefly concerned with the effects of secondhand smoking.
Movie subtitles
General Carew's cronies, chiefly.
You will find this will a comparatively simple document, owing chiefly to the fact that you two girls are the only living kin of Colonel Caldwell.
Well, uh. - What author has chiefly influenced you?
A loaf of bread is what we chiefly need.
Therefore, our plan of defence is based chiefly on the belief that Rommel will attack here.
It is the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate. The malignant thing that has plagued and frightened man. since time began.
Chiefly, I disapprove of the fact that he didn't marry my mother.
What has chiefly disturbed Sir Edward is the fact that these stupid Americans have protested.
Chiefly nitrogen with virtually no oxygen or hydrogen.
Chiefly, I assign space to people who need space.
But, chiefly, your children need a mother.
But chiefly they can't publish because most leaks come from No. 10.
Gunny is a coarse material, chiefly used for sacking, sir.
They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, sir.
Well, chiefly insomnia, in minute doses.
Chiefly middle. It's a master at the art of collaboration and compromise.
Its owner, chiefly.
Backwards, forwards, every which way but chiefly forwards.
Well, uh. What author has chiefly influenced you?
Ever since the inquest my mail consists chiefly of anonymous letters.
Chiefly because of death.
We of the less-favored race realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.
One speech in it I chiefly loved, 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido and thereabout of it especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter.
Chiefly oats and millet, but you make do with what you have.
And the equally plain fact is the stuff you build a reputation on comes chiefly out of my head!
What author has chiefly influenced you?
It is the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate.
Chiefly about that money.
The new crime wave is due..chiefly to the excessive media freedom.
Chiefly, it's one man. a worker from the construction grades.
But sometimes I wonder, could my fondness for these materials have anything to do with the fact that I'm chiefly made up of them?
Believers find this compelling, or at least plausible chiefly because of the alleged star map.
But deep inside the atom hidden far beneath the outer electron cloud is the nucleus, composed chiefly of protons and neutrons.
Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
Many nations understand why whale murder is monstrous but the traffic continues chiefly by Japan and Norway and the Soviet Union.
News and current affairs
True, cancer deaths have dropped chiefly because of long-delayed - and still poorly supported - efforts to curb smoking.
Reduced uptake of smoking by children would save lives chiefly after 2050.
The main positive effect of quantitative easing was on asset prices - chiefly financial assets.
This raised questions about prudential supervision, chiefly whether sufficient resources exist to check whether the institutions are financially sound.
Einstein may have drawn US President Franklin Roosevelt's attention to the possibility of making nuclear weapons, but he is chiefly remembered for his profound ideas about the nature of the universe.
Of course, there would be some big gainers from agricultural reform, but they are chiefly consumers and taxpayers in rich countries.
For Obama, Africa so far chiefly remains a backdrop against which he defines his American identity.
The Great Terror of 1937-1938 began with a shooting campaign - directed chiefly against peasants - that claimed 386,798 lives across the Soviet Union, a disproportionate number of them in Ukraine.
But the main reason for heavy military spending in Latin America has always been chiefly domestic.
Then, as now, the backlash came chiefly from rich industrial countries, rather than from poor peripheral countries which were often seen as the objects of capitalist exploitation.
But a reduction in poverty and environmental degradation - such as lack of access to clean drinking water - that affect the lives of billions of people in the Third World will always depend chiefly on local policies.
At the same time, successive EU enlargements over the decades have brought in other powerful contenders, chiefly Spain and the UK, as well as smaller countries who are unwilling to bow before French-German leadership.
Until now, the opposition has chiefly acted as an irritant, and voters viewed debates as entertainment, rather than as exchanges that informed policy.
Things have clearly moved on from Copenhagen, when the priority was to reach agreement between those countries that have been chiefly responsible for global warming.
This matters chiefly to Russians, but, because Russia straddles the vast Eurasian land mass, lack of clarity about its future imposes a permanent fearfulness on the rest of us.
But they had built their economies on borrowed money - chiefly from America - in the second half of the 1920's.
Two other external powers, Russia and China, have established a strategic presence in the region, but their pursuit of their interests, which are chiefly economic, is not destabilizing and has nothing to do with democracy promotion.