Principal
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753 examples of Principal in a sentence
He must stand by his two
principal
demands: nullification of the election and establishment of an impartial committee to rule on the government’s violations of the electoral law.
Russia's New Anti-Oligarch WarMoscow's sleepy political summer has been stirred by a Kremlin attack, initiated by President Vladimir Putin's closest aides, on Russia's leading oligarch and the country's richest man--Michael Khodorkovsky, the
principal
shareholder of the oil company Yukos.
The ability to determine the
principal
genes that account for our variable response to prescription drugs has been advanced by a technique known as a genome-wide association study (GWAS).
The two
principal
schools of thought were “roll back” and “containment.”
This pressure at various times took the form of US, British, and French nuclear programs;NATO’s willingness to counter Warsaw Pact deployments of both conventional military and tactical nuclear forces; the decision to defend South Korea against the North’s aggression; the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to bleed Soviet occupation forces; and the decision to build a costly missile-defense system aimed both at negating the Soviet Union’s
principal
military investment and bankrupting its government.
That means that the
principal
bond of such an alliance is not a mere calculus of geopolitical interest, or of potential enemies, but something much deeper: solidarity.
So far, the decline of what was the Soviet Union has proceeded relatively well;Russia, the
principal
successor state, has avoided all-out civil war and war with its neighbors.
There are four
principal
actors in this arena: Israel, Egypt, Hamas, and the Sinai jihadis.
But peace was the
principal
driving force in the minds of people like Schumann and Jean Monnet at the beginning of the European integration process, as it was for Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing when they laid the foundations of the single currency and today’s European Central Bank.
This ignores the far greater losses that a failed Doha Round would entail, for example, by undermining the World Trade Organization’s credibility as the
principal
guarantor of rules-based trade, and by leaving trade liberalization entirely to discriminatory liberalization under preferential bilateral agreements.
The
principal
obstacle to peace has been Pakistan’s sponsorship of militancy and terrorism within India, culminating in the horrific attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, in which terrorist commandos killed almost 200 people.
That fear is one of the
principal
forces driving Xi’s reform agenda.
Others, like me, understood that expansionary monetary policies would not be enough; but, because we had looked at global imbalances the wrong way, we missed the
principal
source of risk – US financial mis-regulation.
Securing a loan from the International Monetary Fund has become the
principal
objective of economic management, coupled with other anxious attempts to raise financing.
Even if they are now willing to accept newly issued bonds when interest and
principal
on outstanding ones are due, the time will come when the US will have to pay the interest by exporting more goods and services than it imports.
As the Kim regime’s
principal
patron, China is viewed as the key to containing Kim’s nuclear ambitions.
If China truly does want a peaceful resolution to the escalating nuclear crisis, it should address the two key weaknesses of the double-freeze solution, proposing a detailed, intrusive, and stringent verification regime and committing itself to serve as the
principal
enforcer of the agreement.
No matter how compelling the case for punishing Saddam Hussein and such partners in crime as Ali Hassan al-Majid ("Ali Chemical" to the Kurds), Saddam's cousin and the
principal
organizer of the Anfal campaign, it is equaled by our duty to try to minimize harm to the living.
What was remarkable about this framework was that its
principal
author, the major superpower of the day, accepted its authority.
In 2005, the Rand Corporation, a US research institute, developed the “Arc,” a genuinely inspiring plan to build a transportation corridor that would link Palestine’s
principal
business and population hubs in the West Bank, then curve across Israel into Gaza, where a long-planned airport and seaport would be built.
In his recent speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke forcefully complained that political paralysis has possibly become the
principal
impediment to recovery.
The
principal
source of the attacks on Rajan was Subramanian Swamy, a bloviating Donald Trump-like figure with a penchant for bigotry and wild allegations, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of parliament) by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in late April.
First, the most important contribution that this conference can make to the possibility of a negotiated settlement and a political transition in Syria is to change the
principal
parties’ incentives.
In its latest authoritative assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded last year that scientists are now 95% certain that human activities are the
principal
cause of rising temperatures.
This addresses one of the
principal
British complaints about the EU: that it has so far failed to complete the single market, a project partly initiated by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
A
principal
goal of the recently presented 12th Five-Year Plan is to increase household incomes and consumer spending at a faster rate than that of GDP growth.
But the truth is that productivity is not the
principal
economic problem right now.
In 2013, a former
principal
deputy director of national intelligence wrote that America’s interests could require major use of US armed forces.
Likewise, large-scale energy production requires water; in some countries, including the United States and France, the energy sector is the
principal
consumer of water.
One useful step on our part would be to end the anachronism of bringing together many of the world’s
principal
leaders in the annual G-8 meeting of industrialized countries and not including China (or India or Brazil, for that matter) as a matter of course.
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