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  • Primarily, the pentacle is a pagan religious symbol.†   (source)
  • After months of frustration, failure, and growing public scorn, Sheriff Thomas Tate, ABI lead investigator Simon Benson, and the district attorney's investigator, Larry Ikner, decided to arrest Walter McMillian based primarily on Ralph Myers's allegation.†   (source)
  • But that was just a hobby; Atwood was primarily an entrepreneur and a trader who dealt in everything from storage tanks to damaged merchandise.†   (source)
  • Snakewater is important primarily because of the number of dinosaur nesting sites here.†   (source)
  • In these years before we attended Gravesend Academy, Owen and I were educated—primarily—by what we saw at The Idaho and on my grandmother's television.†   (source)
  • The turret is crowned with a steel dome and is used primarily to range larger guns positioned farther below.†   (source)
  • Under the influence not I know of the hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as it should be, as it was meant to be in his nature, Phineas recaptured that magic gift for existing primarily in space, one foot conceding briefly to gravity its rights before spinning him off again into the air.†   (source)
  • Then he began to speak, quietly and deliberately, picking his words with great care: "It is Okonkwo that I primarily wish to speak to," he began.†   (source)
  • We had lived primarily on fast food, which was a challenge for my vegetarian child.†   (source)
  • Breakfast here is simple and consists primarily of breads—croissants being the most famous, of course.†   (source)
  • These two chambers are made primarily of silicon, mixed with bio tissue.†   (source)
  • The shipboard computer had a limited library. it was geared primarily to entertainment rather than education.†   (source)
  • "The climate, primarily," said Andy, swiping his nose with one of the pressed cotton handkerchiefs he plucked every morning from the stack in his drawer.†   (source)
  • Like most boys, I started to care about other things: sports and girls and cars and music, primarily, and by fourteen, I was spending little time at home.†   (source)
  • Then there were the groups organized primarily around religious beliefs.†   (source)
  • And Leah is just primarily a show-off.†   (source)
  • There were hundreds of plantations out there with no radios or cornlines, primarily because they were harvesting bootleg drugs as well as fiberplastic.†   (source)
  • There are about 88,000 living in Britain and 44,000 in the U.S.A. In Afghanistan, they live primarily in the mountains of the northeast, and they also have heavily populated areas in the east and south.†   (source)
  • Primarily the difference between people and animals is that people use fire.†   (source)
  • He argued that Chicago's fair, unlike any other before it, would be primarily a monument to architecture.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure I can decode all the things that scene means, but I'm pretty sure it is not primarily about sex.†   (source)
  • He'd been the building manager at a Fresno office park, working fourteen-hour days and leaving everything at home to her mother, who worked three shifts a week at a hotel restaurant and who responded to the pressure of it all with a hair-trigger temper, primarily directed at Mae.†   (source)
  • Or, when Willem was visiting and would not let us forget, or when letters to Jewish suppliers in Germany came back marked "Address Unknown," we still managed to believe that it was primarily a German problem.†   (source)
  • Indeed "flavor" is primarily the smell of gases being released by the chemicals you've just put in your mouth.†   (source)
  • We ended up in Watts, a community primarily of black people except for La Colonia, often called The Quarter — the Mexican section and the oldest part of Watts.†   (source)
  • Primarily, they will be filled by either tourists or the wealthy summer residents who have been coming to Tinos since the 1990s.†   (source)
  • All this was of course primarily to announce her credentials to Margaret Kochamma.†   (source)
  • A couple of final disclaimers: Mack would like you to know that if you happen upon this story and hate it, he says, "Sorry… but it wasn't primarily written for you."†   (source)
  • The Boroughs in this area are primarily family boroughs, full of parents and contracted couples and youth under the age of twenty-one.†   (source)
  • At the time, music was primarily a boys' club.†   (source)
  • The Silent Brothers may not be warriors, but they are primarily guardians, and very good at their jobs.†   (source)
  • They're primarily interested in wormsign.†   (source)
  • More than being a teacher with interests limited primarily to music, Mr. Doakes encouraged my academic pursuits.†   (source)
  • The terms classic and romantic, as Phaedrus used them, mean the following: A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself.†   (source)
  • It was a boat builder who lived out on Woodhouse Cove Road—a gray-bearded man named Alexander Van Ness—who was primarily responsible for holding up a verdict in the trial of Kabuo Miyamoto.†   (source)
  • What has driven historical development from the slave society of antiquity to the industrial society of today has primarily been determined by changes in the base of society.†   (source)
  • England primarily, some Irish tossed in.†   (source)
  • The AIA was dealing primarily with big Swedish firms who wanted to get into the Eastern European market.†   (source)
  • Buttercup at this time was nowhere near that high, being barely in the top twenty, and that primarily on potential, certainly not on any particular care she took of herself.†   (source)
  • As the custodians of the dwarves' religion, the Quan wielded enormous influence among their race, but so far, Gannel had obtained the support of but two other clans, Durgrimst Ragni Hefthyn and Durgrimst Ebardac-a clan primarily devoted to scholarly research.†   (source)
  • Nor did he care to chance the loss of a manila envelope fat with photo-graphs-primarily of himself, and ranging in time from a pretty-little-boy portrait made when he was in the Merchant Marine (and on the back of which he had scribbled, "16 yrs. old.†   (source)
  • Gun A was the one primarily used during the shooting, Guns C and D were left in the backpack retrieved at the crime scene.†   (source)
  • It's a fun thing, and that's primarily how it should be looked at."†   (source)
  • We rejected the Communist notion that Africans were oppressed primarily as an economic class rather than as a race, adding that we needed to create a powerful national liberation movement under the banner of African nationalism and "led by Africans themselves."†   (source)
  • The family made its fortune primarily from making rebar—the metal rods used to strengthen concrete—which it sold across Jordan.†   (source)
  • …not all) of them know that the time has come: they are off, and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows (among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily, if at all, as individuals) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will: has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the…†   (source)
  • Dad did what he could to encourage more industrial growth in some of the primarily agricultural provinces.†   (source)
  • Stickiness is primarily a property of the message.†   (source)
  • This lesson, like all of the others your great-uncle is trying to teach you, is one you must learn primarily yourself.†   (source)
  • Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach.†   (source)
  • Two others identified as likely participants were a man called Antibbe, who also used many other aliases, familiar to authorities in the Middle East and Europe as a mercenary, and a black named Stroll, known primarily as a technician, expert with explosives, machinery, etc. There was one other, whose identity was not known to us at that time.†   (source)
  • Extracurricular prison cooking happened primarily in two communal microwaves that were placed in kitchenette areas between the Dorms; their use was a privilege the staff constantly (and with great enjoyment) threatened to revoke.†   (source)
  • She also observed aid programs that spent primarily on expatriate staff and didn't know what they were doing.†   (source)
  • Adam had learned early in his deployment that two distinct battles were waging in Afghanistan: One was against the terrorist population, primarily al Qaeda but also a plethora of Islamic extremists, both foreign and domestic.†   (source)
  • Herbert was an ROV specialist at Oceaneering International, a company that builds and operates ROVs primarily for the oil and gas industry.†   (source)
  • My relationship to Victor, before that morning, consisted primarily of not understanding what he had in common with Diane, whom I found loud.†   (source)
  • "Ancient languages, primarily," said John.†   (source)
  • In vain Clara explained to her that her guests were not interested in ashtrays, primarily because none of them smoked; but Nana had already made up her mind that they were all, with the exception of the three enchanting Mora sisters, a bunch of evangelical scoundrels.†   (source)
  • I was really good at it, primarily because I, unlike most kids of four or five, had the then-peculiar ability to be extremely quiet for long periods of time, and also because I suffered from absolutely no trace of anything resembling claustrophobia: I could wedge myself into the smallest rear-closet crawl space and stay there for twenty or thirty minutes, not making a sound, having the time of my life.†   (source)
  • The colleague of Franz's whom Marie-Claude asked to speak at the graveside services also paid homage primarily to the deceased's brave wife.†   (source)
  • This is primarily because: 1.†   (source)
  • Ghosh was primarily a surgeon now, operating electively three days a week and doing the emergency cases as needed.†   (source)
  • Does primarily family law but also mixes it up with the cops and prosecutors.†   (source)
  • His horror was primarily motivated by the voice.†   (source)
  • She had been addressing Seivarden primarily, thinking of Seivarden as the principal person between the two of us.†   (source)
  • It was suicide, without guns it was suicide, and not even the pawnshops here had guns for sale; and yet I knew with a shattering dread that the uproar which for the moment marked primarily the crash of men against things-against stores, markets-could swiftly become the crash of men against men and with most of the guns and numbers on the other side.†   (source)
  • Merchant Erving had sided with the Loyalists primarily because he thought the rebellion would fail.†   (source)
  • As good as those men are, they're primarily concerned with guarding lives, maybe saving them; they also have to coordinate with each other and make reports.†   (source)
  • The upstairs loft is primarily for straw and hay storage, though several large rooms were constructed here for cold storage as well.†   (source)
  • The growth was primarily centered on the side of his neck, but has since spread to his throat.†   (source)
  • Against the left-hand wall were boxes of restaurant provisions, primarily paper towels for the rest rooms, candles for the tables, and janitorial supplies purchased in bulk.†   (source)
  • We were primarily focused on Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Importance is primarily monistic in its reference to the universe.†   (source)
  • We struggled to stop them on defense, with their running, primarily Knowshon Moreno, for big chunks of yardage, taking time off the clock.†   (source)
  • In John Kennedy's world, blacks are primarily valets, cooks, waiters, and maids.†   (source)
  • The southern side, in Kentucky, was settled primarily by Scots-Irish, who came overland through the Appalachians.†   (source)
  • This gallery was dim, brightened primarily by the exhibits themselves, whose glass cases were illuminated from within.†   (source)
  • I discovered that the Institute drew its sons from every state in the Union but it was primarily a Southern school, dedicated to the task of making Southerners.†   (source)
  • The teachings were coming primarily out of the New Testament, and most of the tribesmen thought Jesus and his father were wise and benevolent, much like their own great spirit Ngewo who lived far above the clouds.†   (source)
  • We have a revolutionary dental cleaning instrument of a very elegant character that has been used primarily by the heads of the royal houses and that has yet to be brought to the general public.†   (source)
  • And while the abolition of slavery was one of the two great results of the Civil War—the other being preservation of one nation indivisible—not many Union soldiers claimed to fight primarily for that purpose.†   (source)
  • Actually it only served to widen it, primarily because of the terms of the new law covering fugitive slaves. ln the North, men who had been indifferent to slavery, men who had been openly hostile toward the Abolitionists, men who hated Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, with a deep and abiding hatred, were stirred to anger.†   (source)
  • This place is primarily a vineyard, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Greece was primarily a nation of soldiers.†   (source)
  • Though primarily known for his ferocious proficiency in battle, Heafstaag was a leader who carefully weighed his every move.†   (source)
  • I have therefore avoided historical opinions and gone back primarily to the words of the men themselves, their letters and other documents.†   (source)
  • Xenophon indicates that the impiety charge stemmed primarily from the contention of Socrates that he received divine communications (a "voice" or a "sign") directing him to avoid politics and concentrate on his philosophic mission.†   (source)
  • He'd been divorced twice, primarily because of his affinity for younger women, but the good people of the First Judicial District didn't seem to mind.†   (source)
  • She was that misplaced woman who attempted to maintain aristocracy in a primarily blue-collar town.†   (source)
  • It was primarily for athletes who were planning to become coaches, which I wasn't sure I wanted to do.†   (source)
  • After a moment, Eve realized she was limping primarily because she'd lost a shoe.†   (source)
  • Sure, Mike had been taught English—but primarily to permit him to translate to and from English.†   (source)
  • I mean it's primarily a religious book.†   (source)
  • Kay was in charge of inventory, accounting, payroll, and bookkeeping, with the help of other members of the family, but she was the one primarily in charge, and she had absolutely zero business training.†   (source)
  • Heavy metals, primarily in the platinum group!†   (source)
  • Evidence obtained by various Government agencies from hunters, trappers and traders seemed to prove that the plunge of the caribou toward extinction was primarily due to the depredations of the wolf.†   (source)
  • It was designed primarily for the protection of children.†   (source)
  • I was shortly to learn in a casual manner—from Leslie and from a middle-aged friend of the Lapiduses, a Mr. Ben Field, who arrived with his wife that evening practically on my heels—that the Lapidus fortune derived primarily from a single piece of plastic no bigger than the forefinger of a child or an adult's vermiform appendix, which as a matter of fact it rather resembled.†   (source)
  • His trip to Chicago was primarily a business trip with some traditional pleasures thrown in.†   (source)
  • It is primarily a condensation of the growing rivalry between two teen-age gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, each of which has its own prideful uniform.†   (source)
  • Our dreams are largely visual in nature, for our waking lives are primarily visually oriented.†   (source)
  • In those days he had not been primarily concerned with himself.†   (source)
  • When old Sam had first journeyed to the Senate, the baby-new state of Texas was primarily concerned with railroad, land, debt and boundary questions, without particularly strong Southern ties.†   (source)
  • As to the degree of insanity by which she was primarily affected, I am unable to speak.†   (source)
  • My mission was primarily focused on Jeanine Matthews.†   (source)
  • The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive.†   (source)
  • This is primarily for kids at home; and before school age.†   (source)
  • Don Balthazar never commented on my work; primarily, I assume, because I never showed him any of it.†   (source)
  • Only two years old, it had been built primarily to supply hamburgers for the Burger King chain.†   (source)
  • "Primarily we're looking for hidey-holes.†   (source)
  • Frivolous, irrational, erratic, untrustworthy, interested primarily in pleasure-seeking.†   (source)
  • He tuned back in, primarily because Fox kicked him under the table.†   (source)
  • 6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal material.†   (source)
  • A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance.†   (source)
  • It was intellectual primarily, but it wasn't just intelligence that was fundamental.†   (source)
  • The difference is that the classic reality is primarily theoretic but has its own esthetics too.†   (source)
  • The romantic reality is primarily esthetic, but has its theory too.†   (source)
  • Napoleon's vanity was insufferable, but primarily because it was so fully justified.†   (source)
  • The only other immediate threat would come from our neighbors, primarily England.†   (source)
  • And so it was that Colin dined that evening primarily on rice and green beans.†   (source)
  • In this case primarily of girls from the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe.†   (source)
  • 'Excuse me,' she said, speaking primarily to the girl.†   (source)
  • You do realize that I'm primarily a columnist?†   (source)
  • In her closet hung over a dozen colorful 'dresses and skirts, primarily for the celebrations.†   (source)
  • Woref paced, primarily to squash his impulse to throw open the door and kill the man where he stood.†   (source)
  • The pros suspect he is, though, primarily because they can find no evidence that he's ever died.†   (source)
  • Any number of pretexts would do, but primarily military high-tech espionage.†   (source)
  • We have planted, cultivated, and protected the grasses on our land primarily for ducks.†   (source)
  • The technology of RFTS worked primarily on incoming calls to Ekström.†   (source)
  • Outside of the wound, I'd say primarily traumatic shock.†   (source)
  • They were there primarily for me, and to help me out by helping her.†   (source)
  • The audience of nearly five thousand is mostly male, and primarily union workers.†   (source)
  • Our discussions centered primarily on a new date, and we agreed on early May.†   (source)
  • They have metal but they're not primarily metals.†   (source)
  • He was pleased by the renewed construction, but not primarily because of the window.†   (source)
  • Oswald's trip home was primarily to get his rifle.†   (source)
  • What happened in Gosseberga is primarily Göteborg's problem.†   (source)
  • They worked primarily at SIS on Kungsholmen, but had met with some of the Section's activists.†   (source)
  • It is of course primarily for this reason that police departments hire family men, when possible.†   (source)
  • The fire is fed with dead twigs and branches, but primarily with dung, made into patties the size and shape of hamburgers and dried in the noonday sun.†   (source)
  • The Swiss Guard "staging room" is located adjacent to the Corpo di Vigilanza barracks and is used primarily for planning the security surrounding papal appearances and public Vatican events.†   (source)
  • RHAPAW was a fifteen-year-old Buick that had been driven with impunity by all three of Ben's older siblings and was, by the time it reached Ben, composed primarily out of duct tape and spackle.†   (source)
  • Readers familiar with the Outside article may notice discrepancies between certain details (primarily matters of time) reported in the magazine and those in the book; the revisions reflect new information that has come to light since publication of the magazine piece.†   (source)
  • My father was back in Washington, D.C., which made things a lot more fun around my house, primarily because I could sneak out the window again and head to the graveyard for my late night forays.†   (source)
  • Primarily because I towered over the rest of the players, I nearly made it onto the T-ball all-star team that year.†   (source)
  • The walls of this antique-adorned living room were covered with classical art, primarily paintings with strange mythical themes.†   (source)
  • My interest in the Holy Grail is primarily symbologic, so I tend to ignore the plethora of lore regarding how to actually find it.†   (source)
  • "Never lose sight of the fact that our special responsibility as landscape artists applies primarily to the broad, comprehensive scenery of the Exposition," Olmsted wrote.†   (source)
  • He recognized that the disease was confined to one side of the brain, affecting primarily the opposite side of the body (since the left side of the body is controlled mainly by the right side of the brain, and vice versa).†   (source)
  • And for the last two years, Wu had been primarily an administrator, supervising teams of researchers and banks of computer-operated gene sequencers.†   (source)
  • John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California's Mt. Ritter.†   (source)
  • The Sixers used these droids primarily as gofers, to run errands and fill equipment and ammo requisitions for the troops stationed outside.†   (source)
  • For weeks we'd been toiling in what amounted to a canyon; now, for the first time on the expedition the vista was primarily sky rather than earth.†   (source)
  • We were interrupted by Holly Moser, the senior I knew primarily from viewing her nude self-portraits over Thanksgiving with Alaska.†   (source)
  • What I heard instead was sympathy and a little sadness but primarily a life lesson: "I still call him regularly and check up on him.†   (source)
  • The prosecution relied primarily on the self-serving stories of McCants and Gulley, including Gulley's claim that Joe had confessed the rape to him in a detention facility before trial.†   (source)
  • He has primarily been a freelancer, with one full-time position at an evening paper in the late eighties.†   (source)
  • My mother worked on and off, primarily as a costurera o r cleaning homes or taking care of other people's children.†   (source)
  • I don't see Merchant working only or even primarily as a product of bigotry, and I will go on reading it, although there are many works by Shakespeare that I like better and return to more regularly.†   (source)
  • The people here were mostly Shiites, whereas my earlier battles in Iraq had been primarily with Sunnis.†   (source)
  • …expanses of wall space were opaque with canvas, portraits in oil of deceased headmasters, a founder or two, forgotten leaders of the faculty, a beloved athletic coach none of us had ever heard of, a lady we could not identify—her fortune had largely rebuilt the school; a nameless poet who was thought when under the school's protection to be destined primarily for future generations; a young hero now anonymous who looked theatrical in the First World War uniform in which he had died.†   (source)
  • She'd also called the newspaper, and they'd agreed to write an article about it, primarily because of the Jamie- Hegbert connection, even though everyone in town already knew about it.†   (source)
  • Primarily, though, modern man had relegated magic squares to the category of "recreational mathematics," some people still deriving pleasure from the quest to discover new "magical" configurations.†   (source)
  • BENE GESSERIT: the ancient school of mental and physical training established primarily for female students after the Butlerian Jihad destroyed the so-called "thinking machines" and robots.†   (source)
  • They were breaking into cliques, based primarily on what movies they were going to see or the latest shirts they bought from the mall, and I found myself on the outside looking in.†   (source)
  • Electromagnetic-pulse or EMP guns were now commonplace among law enforcement agencies, which used them primarily to stop car chases from a safe distance.†   (source)
  • I saw a few bills through the glass-not too many-but I wasn't actually nervous until I emptied the contents onto my floor and saw that the change consisted primarily of pennies.†   (source)
  • She was the first woman pictures editor Blomkvist had met in journalism, where photography was still primarily a male art form.†   (source)
  • Scientists thought their jaw muscles were too weak to kill prey, and imagined they were primarily scavengers.†   (source)
  • Tate, Larry Ikner, and Benson—the law enforcement team primarily responsible for Walter's prosecution—piled in behind the prosecutors and sat down in the courtroom as well.†   (source)
  • A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.†   (source)
  • Mae sensed something in Annie's voice then, an indication that Annie was talking, primarily, to the audience around Mae's neck.†   (source)
  • The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain.†   (source)
  • They were primarily about the black experience, works coming out of the flames which engulfed many American cities in the 1960s.†   (source)
  • AI "families" are primarily convenient code groups for showing where certain processing trends originated."†   (source)
  • And it was coming, primarily, from the 368 people who apparently hated her so much they wanted her gone.†   (source)
  • The clinic was funded by a foundation called the Himalayan Rescue Association primarily to treat altitude-related illnesses (although it also offered free treatment to the local Sherpas) and to educate trekkers about the insidious hazards of ascending too high, too fast.†   (source)
  • He seems to have been given the left-wing stamp primarily because as a financial journalist he specialises in investigative reporting about corruption and shady transactions in the corporate world.†   (source)
  • Now a fraction of its former size, it employed only two full-time technicians, and they were primarily concerned with diagnosing illnesses of New Yorkers who had traveled abroad.†   (source)
  • It didn't take long for middle-income Anglos, primarily fleeing L.A.'s inner-city as it filled up with people of color, to move in and around these barrios and create the first suburbs.†   (source)
  • I could feel the blows slamming home-not against me primarily, but connecting to the matrix analog that was BB.†   (source)
  • Only a few hundred of these artifacts existed, and most of them dated back to the earliest days of the OASIS, when it was still primarily an MMO game.†   (source)
  • Many independent ranchers are convinced that captive supplies are used primarily to control the market, not to achieve greater slaughterhouse efficiency.†   (source)
  • The two lawyers who were appointed to represent him at his capital trial were primarily concerned that only one of them would be paid the $1,000 for out-of-court time that Alabama provided lawyers appointed in capital cases.†   (source)
  • Consisting primarily of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine with a diethylhexyl plasticizer, it was essentially a piece of C-4 rolled into paper-thin sheets for insertion into doorjambs.†   (source)
  • Even though most experts agree that forensic pathologists—who primarily deal with dead people—are not qualified to estimate survival chances, the State allowed prosecutors to pursue criminal charges.†   (source)
  • The decision was primarily based on the fact that she was deemed to be emotionally disturbed and dangerously violent towards her classmates and possibly towards herself.†   (source)
  • Chatlinks were primarily used for business purposes, when a company wanted to host a meeting in a specific OASIS location without spending the time and money to transport everyone's avatars to it.†   (source)
  • For the next five hours I lay in my tent Although Yasuko had used crampons previously during her climbs of Aconcagua, McKinley, Elbrus, and Vinson, none of these ascents involved much, if any, true ice climbing: the terrain in eachcase consisted primarily of relatively gentle slopes of snow and/or gravel, trying to avoid sensory stimuli of any kind.†   (source)
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