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How to use the word primarily in a Sentence? Page #10

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While there is no way to know the lifestyle of all cancer patients, it is a safe bet to say that at this point the evidence points to a diet of primarily whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, consuming little or no alcohol, regular exercise and not smoking tobacco as ways to help reduce cancer risk.

Samantha Heller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The OPEC demand forecast for 2016 ... suggests some concern about the strength of demand next year. We are primarily wary of this risk.

Richard Hastings

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I am an older worker and working primarily for the health insurance, that means I’m a cautious, careful person - perhaps someone with a serious health problem or a spouse with a problem.

Helen Levy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you look at the way Democrats have struggled with working-class white voters primarily, I think Joe Biden is a guy that has come from that world. He was a middle-class guy growing up, and he has never lost his roots, he gives us a chance to talk to some voters that we have struggled with in the last few cycles.

Steve Schale

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The language-learning market is declining in terms of revenue due primarily to the adoption of less expensive, technology-based products.

Sam Adkins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Seventy percent of women in the United States are a size 14 or above, and that's technically 'plus-size,' so you're taking your biggest category of people and telling them, 'You're not really worthy.' I find that very strange, i also find it very bad business. It doesn't make a lot of sense numbers-wise. It's like, if you open a restaurant and you say, 'We're primarily gonna serve people that don't eat.'.

Melissa McCarthy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's a need for what we do. We should be primarily an anti-terrorism group that does a finite job of detecting terrorists and working with anti-terrorism, i see no value in an air marshal simply sitting in a seat and bouncing back and forth from coast to coast for no other reason than he has to do something.

John Casaretti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The theater's audience is loyal and growing, but that shouldn’t hide the fact that today's plays are made on very low budgets and many actors are unpaid, primarily the young ones.

Nikos Chatzopoulos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China slowdown concerns seem to be primarily among U.S. - and UK-based funds. Asian corporates appear to be amazingly unconcerned.

David Wilson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was raised in polygamy. I was born to Heidi and John Daniel. Heidi is John Daniel’s sixth wife out of 14 wives. My lifestyle growing up was kind of like she was just a single mom. My dad was the disciplinarian, it was a pretty abusive environment, primarily physical abuse from my dad, and then there was also sexual abuse within the group from children to children—the older children to younger children.

Jessica Christensen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was a pretty abusive environment, primarily physical abuse from my dad, and then there was also sexual abuse within the group from children to children—the older children to younger children.

Jessica Christensen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A super-enormous battle is being waged for the future of our society, what we have here are many years of intense efforts to discredit Israel's human rights community, primarily related to our work exposing human rights violations.

Sarit Michaeli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They remain primarily known as a bond shop, and assets in their bond funds have declined as investors were concerned with leadership changes... and periods of underperformance.

Todd Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The risk to the clearing house is primarily whether the customer account is adequately margined.

Timothy Massad

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

New insights into the evolution of this group will primarily come from the fossil record, not additional study of the living species.

Jonathan Geisler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There's no excuse for the kind of violence ... It is counterproductive, since Ferguson ... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Since Ferguson ... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Since Ferguson and the task force that we put together, we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals, primarily African American, often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions, and it comes up, it seems, like once a week now or once every couple of weeks.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is premature to conclude that factors intrinsic to the hospital on weekends like reduced staffing or the increased number of covering providers are primarily responsible for the greater number of hospital-acquired conditions among weekend admissions, it is not clear that the weekend is a less safe time for patients.

Kumar Dharmarajan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's primarily a snap-back rally from the very bad day Friday.

Peter Tuz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are not primarily attacking the Jews.

Adolf Hitler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The most important thing will be trust between the parties, then agenda issues. I wouldn't primarily look at the ranks in the election result.

Juha Sipila

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

No form of tobacco — whether it’s combustible, incombustible or electronic — is safe for youth to use, and that is primarily because we know nicotine can have adverse health effects on the developing adolescent brain. It can lead to addiction. And it could also lead to sustained forms of tobacco use.

Brian King

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And I think it's now time for either the Justice Department, perhaps, or every single police department to review this, the deputy status, because we're going to see more and more of this kind of thing, if it isn't happening more than we even know. you go through a police academy, and you're primarily used in traffic situations, busy shopping areas. They're not armed, they're usually with an armed regular police officer. I think it's a far better model.

Daniel Bongino

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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