principal element
Example Sentences
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Madison did say that it is a principal element of our jurisprudence that no one should be a judge in his own cause, in his own case, right?
From Slate • May 23, 2024
“The main organization, I think, is the Indochina Resource Center,” he told a Congressional hearing in 1976, “and I really think that another principal element would be the multifaceted activities of Mr. Don Luce.”
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022
A principal element of the plan was to put up an orbiting space station to keep people in space but protect them from the hostile, cold vacuum of the environment.
From US News • Jan. 28, 2016
As Irving's outrageous story collapsed in on itself, one principal element in the puzzle loomed ever larger and more baffling: Where had the material he spun into his summa of non-books come from.
From Time Magazine Archive
The principal element of revolutionary success is rapidity of action, and when once this is forsaken, the consolidated strength of an established constitution is advantageously brought to bear against rebellion.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.
