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How to use the word mainly in a Sentence? Page #9

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Traditional banks mainly have debt relations with clients, but to develop tech finance, we need to build shareholding relations with them.

Hankou Bank Chairman Chen Xinmin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He said for the longest time he was going to support Hillary Clinton. She was the inevitable nominee in his mind. All he cares is that the best candidate beats the Republican nominee. But then (the) email (issue) happened, and he started distrusting her credibility a little bit, mainly it was Donald Trump. If Trump is going to win the nomination, Mike Glover suggests, anybody can beat him. So now he's leaning toward Bernie Sanders. Donald Trump has kind of given him permission to go a little bit more toward his heart than his head. And I wonder if there are other Iowa Democrats going through the same kind of thinking.

Ron Fournier

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When people are solely intersecting, we mainly hear monologues. But instead of soliloquizing we need dialoguing. Good social coherence requires a reciprocal willingness to create space for an open discussion. Plain talk and unbiased listening are the keystones for a healthy sovereign human living together. ("Why didn't he ask ? " )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Every time I think about it I'm heartbroken, mainly for my daughter, because such an important role model in her life is gone, i think about the kids that were hurt also and even the bus driver.

Ian Kille

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The fall in consumption in Japan is mainly down to slower economic growth, at the same time, increased focus on energy efficiency is really starting to constrain imports.

Jeremy Wilcox

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think if you talk to people who live in communities that deal with these issues all the time, they will say to you that what these videos are showing us now is what people in many minority communities have been talking about for years, and what they've been describing for years, but they haven't been believed, they have been dismissed, mainly because people don't want to believe that law enforcement can overstep. And of course, it's not every law enforcement officer. But when it happens, the impact that it has, the gash that it leaves, in the web of trust that we need in order for everyone to feel safe, is tremendous. And so that's why these incidents resonate so deeply.

Loretta Lynch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Those who remain are mainly middle-aged adults or schoolchildren, we have elementary school on Nukuoro, but after that older children must move away to attend high school on Pohnpei.

Mayor Senard Leopold

Found on CNN
8 years ago

(The crash) is evidence of a failure of intervention, but it is mainly evidence that the government didn't do what it said it would do.

Oliver Barron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a 1,400-kilometer boundary which we manage all the time with 700 rangers -- rangers that now must mainly focus on anti-poaching operations.

Glenn Phillips

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Foreign fund is going to get difficult and the local borrowing cost is going to be high as the government will have to mainly depend on local funds.

Dimantha Mathew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

U.S. banks have mainly done what's needed to be done and are on an upward curve then you have the 'Road to Damascus banks'. They've finally realized that the market won't bail them out and they have to make some fundamental changes - Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Barclays. It's going to be a year of major change that, in most cases, won't be completed for a number of years.

Chris Wheeler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is mainly old stock, but they do have some more sophisticated weaponries that were more recently manufactured.

Patrick Wilcken

Found on CNN
8 years ago

More than half of migratory bird species travelling the world’s main flyways have suffered serious population declines in the past 30 years. This is due mainly to unequal and ineffective protection across their migratory range and the places they stop to refuel along their routes, a typical migratory bird relies on many different geographic locations throughout its annual cycle for food, rest and breeding. So even if we protect most of their breeding grounds, it’s still not enough – threats somewhere else can affect the entire population.

Claire Runge

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I don’t believe that we need to close borders because in reality these people who are involved in terrorism are already mainly European citizens. It means our security institutions need to work more carefully and intensively to recognize such individuals and detain them if necessary.

President Raimonds Vejonis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From an investor point of view the overall tone (of Britain ahead of the climate talks) isn't positive, the UK's current policy sends a mixed message ... but I suspect it is mainly driven by pressures from the Treasury (finance ministry).

Charlie Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The UK's current policy sends a mixed message ... but I suspect it is mainly driven by pressures from the Treasury (finance ministry).

Charlie Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's been a long season of ups and downs as well, mainly ups, but I think every emotion went through me today, what triggered the tears more is what a tough day it was.

Lydia Ko

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you are as large as we are in our core business in the U.S., you can rarely buy anything and keep it all. Therefore, we are mainly looking for M&A outside of the U.S..

Chief Executive Rice Powell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are facing terrorism by individuals. This is not the terrorism of organizations, this is terrorism by individuals, sometimes with knives, incited mainly by social media.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are just starting employee consultations so it's difficult to say how many people, but we are looking at a couple of a hundred people and it's mainly in the Process Technology but also in the Precious Metal Products divisions.

Finance Director Den Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's mainly driven by what's going on in the U.S. I mean U.S. retail sales were disappointing.

Ian Nakamoto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We looked at a lot of mainly passive designs strategies, we looked at quantifiable analysis on daylight control, solar radiation, wind movements, heat gains, solar exposure, which courtyards would get the most heat gain, and the planning of activities were organized around these factors.

Ole Scheeren partner Eric Chang

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What I think is really interesting about accents, mainly, is they kind of assign us immediately to a tribe, but they are this ever-changing social history as we're walking about -- what we've been through as well as what we want to get to, i personally change my accent all the time. Sometimes I do it just to mess with waiters by ordering every course in a different accent.

Sarah Shepherd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Burma's opening was mainly a process driven by Burmese leaders, rather than the U.S., as they sought to create strategic space against China and generate economic growth through greater exposure to the world.

Daniel Twining

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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