"principal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "The principal justification for this project was a 1988 traffic study," he said.
- Congress cited the Welch assassination as the principal justification for passing a law in 1982 making the willful identification of a CIA officer a criminal offense.
- The principal justification for the non-resident vote is that about 450,000 non-residents constitute the city's day-time population and use most of its services, far outnumbering the City's 9,000 residents.
- For her, and for most other Tories, the principal justification is power.
- He went to war with the principal justification that it was to rid Iraq of WMDs, and there turned out to be no WMDs.
- A principal justification of filtration is control of the pathogenic protozoan organisms giardia and cryptosporidium.
- The principal justification offered for this is that it triggers discussion between the police and organisers, and prevents demonstrators from springing surprises on the police.
- If it continues, it will cumulatively demolish the government's principal justification for refusing all political reforms: that the country's economy is healthy, and there is no need for change.
- It found that the District Court rightly rejected the state's principal justification, the impact on state expenditures, since "the savings depend upon distinguishing between homosexual and heterosexual employees, similarly situated".
- He will also seek more information about an antimissile defense, for which the threat of a North Korean missile attack has been cited as the principal justification.
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