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• And, at the moment, most of that energy comes from nonrenewable sources, chiefly oil, coal and gas, so meeting that demand would contribute to global warming.

• Perceiving each other chiefly with sound cast over stupefying distances, “whales evolved to build relationships in the dark,” Garland says.

• It is a story of smokescreens, too, as colleges and universities retreat from funding two dozen or more sports and double down on spending on the teams that generate the most income, chiefly football and men’s basketball.

• We can further see the commitment of these last four clubs to roster continuity by looking at their top contributors, most of whom were either drafted by or chiefly developed from within the organization.

• This occurs on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, chiefly for hard-shell varieties such as littlenecks, razor, butter, and Manila clams.

• I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.

• Chiefly, we forgot the many, many problems there are with the bones—the book and score—to this show.

• Testimony was what made the case, chiefly the confessions of the young men.

• The Innocence Project has done deservedly celebrated work exposing cases of wrongful convictions, chiefly in rapes and homicides.

• I refer here chiefly to same-sex marriage, the big issue on which the cultural right now represents a quickly shrinking minority.