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• The articles that follow are not chiefly about religion.

• Hormones known as estrogens are probably produced chiefly by ovarian follicles and their thecas.

• The cortège, of course was chiefly composed of persons professing what are still called liberal opinions.

• Congressional polarization began to decline in the early twentieth century—chiefly because Republicans became more moderate—until the nineteen-seventies, when a surge began, chiefly because Republicans became more conservative.

• He is now chiefly remembered for his literary works, including funeral panegyrics for great personages.

• Chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese are of primary commercial importance, while guinea fowl and squabs are chiefly of local interest.

• Research in AI has focused chiefly on the following components of intelligence: learning, reasoning, problem solving, perception, and using language.

• Mr Morar's agency has indeed chiefly gone after politicians from other parties; but it has prosecuted some important figures in Mr Basescu's camp too.

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• Iodine is most familiar as an antiseptic, and bromine is used chiefly to prepare bromine compounds that are used in flame retardants and as general pesticides.

• The opening of a gas pipeline from Bolivia in 1999 has led to a program for construction of gas-fired thermoelectric generating plants, chiefly in the Southeast.

• Though its stated purpose was the promotion of world revolution, the Comintern functioned chiefly as an organ of Soviet control over the international communist movement.

• —died March 12, 1914, New York City), American inventor and industrialist who was chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States.

• Friction, also called in this context dry, or Coulomb, damping, arises chiefly from the electrostatic forces of attraction between the sliding surfaces and converts mechanical energy of motion, or kinetic energy, into heat.

• Other clans had land rights by their relation to former chiefs or to the men of the ranking clan, usually because their women had married men of the chiefly clan or because their men had rendered service to the chiefly clan in the past.

• For all that Zuckerberg talks about Facebook’s giving “people the power to build community and bringing the world closer together,” as he stated during his employee address, the truth is that power flows chiefly toward Facebook, not out to the community.

• Climate scientists say the mechanism driving the wildfire crisis is straightforward: Human behavior, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, has released greenhouse gases that increase temperatures, desiccating forests and priming them to burn.

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• What critics said: "The new telling brings little that feels essential, and the missing elements — chiefly, the controlled chaos and unbridled comedy of the late Robin Williams' vocal performance — have given the film's candy-colored visual palate a homesick pall." — Observer

• Coal tar pitch is a soft to hard and brittle substance containing chiefly aromatic resinous compounds along with aromatic and other hydrocarbons and their derivatives; it is used chiefly as road tar, in waterproofing roofs and other structures, and to make electrodes.

• Customarily, Slavs are subdivided into East Slavs (chiefly Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians), West Slavs (chiefly Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Wends, or Sorbs), and South Slavs (chiefly Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes, Macedonians, and Montenegrins).

• Old Comedy sometimes is called Aristophanic comedy, after its most famous exponent, whose 11 surviving plays include The Clouds (423 bc), a satire on the misuse of philosophical argument directed chiefly against Socrates, and The Frogs (405 bc), a satire on Greek drama directed chiefly against Euripides.