Chiefly used in a sentence

Chiefly in a sentence as an adverb

This chiefly becomes an issue for "resume" paper, which is the king of papers. It's the stuff you reserve for wedding invitations and, well, resumes.

Our education system is propped up chiefly because of government. Most of the US goes to public schools, controlled by the government.

If there's an object with an internal state that chiefly responds to messages about scanning things, what's wrong with calling it NSScanner?

I realize most HNers will be much more familiar with this stuff than I am, I'm interested chiefly in whether or not I misled my friend.

As a man, your defenses against sexual assault -- at least the ones that you're taught by the culture -- are chiefly, "don't go to jail." That's because that's the only major place you have to worry about Unwanted Attention.

I've left companies large and small chiefly because they waited until I gave notice to bring my salary in line with my performance. If you have a top engineer and haven't given them a raise in 9 months, they are seriously considering their options.

I chiefly work on our editor integrations. In terms of ease of development, the order goes like this:\nIntelliJ ~ Emacs > Sublime ~ Ace >> Vim. In terms of community and support, the former ordering is also true.

I've had the same experience before, but chiefly with Ruby. Interestingly, my problems with this in both Python and Ruby have evaporated once I got in the habit of using virtualenv/rb-env/rvm for my development environment.

Ah, but housing is actually desired chiefly for its use-value, ie: to live in. So as the investment-ization of housing raises prices throughout whole markets at a time, it pushes out whole classes of people who just wanted somewhere to live, and increases the debt/mortgage burden for those who can still afford to buy.

How can anybody write an article with a straight face suggesting that you should emulate any of these people who were notable chiefly because they emulated no one? Can we get special flagging functionality to deal with this personality cult ********?

It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer.

Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence. But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally."

There are boring real-estate specific reasons why having two coffee shops on the same intersection is very unlike having one very big coffee shop at the same intersection, by the way, chiefly with regards to traffic flow. Traffic flow is a key consideration for "non-destination" commercial stores, like Starbucks.

Thanks Linux for getting us so far, but I tend towards suspecting that thinking of a running environment that thinks chiefly of itself, that remains firmly about it's own box, is too old world to be of much real service these days.

Buried in the paragraphs of treacle is an important point about supposed "meritocracy": "Having been a good student, no matter how good the reputation of the school—and most of the good schools, we are coming to learn, are good chiefly in reputation—is no indication of one's quality or promise as a leader. A good student might even be more than a bit of a follower, a conformist, standing ready to give satisfaction to the powers that be so that one can proceed to the next good school, taking another step up the ladder of meritocracy."

I think my libertarianism rests chiefly on the empirical propositiona factual belief which is either false or true, depending on how the universe actually worksthat 90% of the time you have a bright idea like 'offer government mortgage guarantees so that more people can own houses,' someone will somehow manage to screw it up, or therell be side effects you didnt think about, and most of the time youll end up doing more harm than good, and the next time wont be much different from the last time." Similarly, my views on politics and economics are heavily influenced by real-world experience, particularly the real-world experience of living in Taiwan, and visiting Hong Kong and China, in the early 1980s when those three culturally similar areas lived under very different government policies.