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principal English

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principal

The principal thing is the main or most important one. Canada's principal trading partner is the USA. Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason - in order to live.

principal

In American English, a principal is the head of a school. (=headmaster in British English) The principal is the most important person in a business, or an artistic group such as a dancers. Principal is the money that you borrow and must pay back. It does not include interest.

principal

(= chief, main, primary, master) most important element the chief aim of living the main doors were of solid glass the principal rivers of America the principal example policemen were primary targets the master bedroom a master switch the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated the educator who has executive authority for a school she sent unruly pupils to see the principal an actor who plays a principal role (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

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Simple sentences

I spoke to the principal himself.
The principal severely reproved the students whenever they made a mess in the hallway.
The principal theme of the book is the American Revolution.
The organization plays a principal role in wildlife conservation.
Our principal made a long speech.
Today, automobiles have taken the place of horses as the principal means of transportation.
The principal of our school is an American.
A new principal is administering the school.
He has just become a principal.
The teacher is with the school principal.
He must be the principal.
Chicago is the principal city of the Middle West.
The principal came in after the teacher.
The principal called him to account for being absent without an excuse.
Our principal wanted to admit Bob to our school.
The principal cause of death in refugee camps is the lack of nourishment.
He is the principal of the high school.
He said that their principal would go there the next day.

Movie subtitles

The principal occupation of the Hon'ami clan is to appraise and to sharpen swords.
And his interest is our principal.
This man is to be questioned by the Sheriff Principal.
I'll lay you 100 to 1 that your Sheriff Principal. has the top joint of his little finger missing.
I could use some of the principal.
But from my struggling youth until today my principal aim has been to strive for truth.
On Monday next, matters will be right but the Professor and all the principal members of his gang will be in the hands of the police.
There's the principal actor.
Well, the principal item is that letter of Leslie's I mentioned to you.
Everything else, the principal, as well as all monies earned is to be administered by the bank in trust for your son, Charles Foster Kane until he reaches his 25th birthday, at which time he is to come into complete possession.
It's the principal.
Hello, the minister's principal private secretary.
When I write about a woman, a principal character.
You all know the principal character in this film.
The principal animals in Africa are moose, elks and Knights of Pythias.
This man is to be questioned by the Sheriff Principal. - We have orders to take him there.
All right, I'll have it with you, Sherlock. I'll lay you 100 to 1 that your Sheriff Principal. has the top joint of his little finger missing.
Yes, Principal.
Principal Boisse, this maniac is constantly provoking me.
He was a widower, so the principal and I kept the kid.
Their hostility, Principal, doesn't bother me at all.
Give that directly to the Principal.
I cannot tell you, Principal.
I'm sorry, Principal.
Good evening, Principal.
In that case go straight to the Principal's office.
Extremely. - Principal.
Yes, Principal. I mean. no.
I cannot tell you, Principal. I can't.
Principal.
Principal. I searched everywhere. No sign of him.
What did you tell the principal?

News and current affairs

They provide the principal source of protein for over ten million people worldwide.
Historically, the principal agents of reef degradation have been over-fishing and pollution, not global warming.
But the heady glow of America's return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region's principal security anchor in the face of China's strategic ambitions.
The holdouts claimed that, if the new bonds were being serviced in full (as they were), equal treatment required that the holdouts should receive the full amount owed to them (including not only interest but also principal).
As a result, the principal policy toward Iran centers on the imposition of increasingly painful economic sanctions.
Much now depends on whether the same is true of the other major outcome, which is that Yukos's principal asset - Yuganskneftegaz - is now in state hands, while its remaining units appear doomed to nationalization.
Here, Israel may come under growing pressure from its principal ally.
The Italians and Spaniards are right: the principal reason for the size of the spread between the periphery and Germany is convertibility risk.
They could buy bad loans from lenders and forgive part of the principal payable by borrowers, simultaneously reducing lenders' collateral requirements and borrowers' debt overhang.
Indeed, the politicization of history remains the principal obstacle to reconciliation in East Asia.
A board of 17 people, one from each eurozone economy, would be unwieldy, and unlikely to win the support of the eurozone's principal creditor countries.
If Syriza wins but does not take power, a principal reason will be fear of how the EU will respond.
The member state would then be legally obliged to make deposits into that account to cover the ECB bonds' coupons and principal.
The principal risk I see today is that being borne by investors in dollar-denominated debt - and I don't believe they are charging a fair price for what they are doing.
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America's principal welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.
Carbon-free hydroelectric power is the right choice as sub-Saharan Africa's principal source of energy.
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.
That fear is one of the principal forces driving Xi's reform agenda.
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.
But the principal reasons for the West not to isolate Kazakhstan are geostrategic.
This principal-agent problem is much diminished in the case of commodity bonds.
One key of the principal reasons for the world's economic growth from 2000-07, despite wars and terrorist atrocities, was that India and China joined the world economy.
There are three principal reasons why the Bush administration's impact on human rights is so much at odds with its stated intentions.
And it is the ECB's credibility problem, not that of member states, that is the principal reason for unsustainably high borrowing costs in Italy, Spain, and other distressed eurozone countries.
The third and fourth scenarios can unfold even if the US remains the principal security anchor for Asia.
The fact that a panel of judges representing the 108 governments that are parties to the ICC has accused Bashir of principal responsibility for the crimes committed in Darfur during the past six years undermines the legitimacy of his continued rule.
In addition, China has served as the principal broker in talks between the US and North Korea on nuclear issues, in which Japan has a huge stake.
And it was after the Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that the US helped to turn China into an export juggernaut that has accumulated massive trade surpluses and become the principal source of capital flows to the US.

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