But in the Louisiana rail-car accident, the jury appears to have been motivated chiefly by urgings from plaintiffs' lawyers to "send a message" to the corporate defendants, rather than by a damage analysis.

Her journey was motivated chiefly by a sort of visceral feminism.

The committee concluded that China was chiefly motivated by its desire to match the sophisticated efforts of Taiwan and other major nations.

Wilson and Parks were chiefly motivated to create something explicitly American in style and subject as a direct reaction to the overwhelming British dominance of pop culture at the time.

They came in family groups, rather than as isolated individuals, and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.

Some Polish authors emphasize a wider emigration pattern motivated chiefly by economic conditions and the unwillingess of the German minority to live in the Polish state.

One of the Cold Harbor scientists suggests that this was motivated chiefly by their inability to live with themselves.

"The principal advocates for this appear chiefly motivated by mean-spirited partisanship; they certainly care not at all for the feelings of Vince's family, particularly those of his children, who have suffered greatly."

Mr. Silverglad's son, James, a corporate lawyer, said his father was motivated chiefly by an intellectual curiosity.

Certain US companies - chiefly motivated by financial considerations - are stepping up pressure in all the Community's institutions for the adoption of this directive.