"principal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

principal adjetivo

principal + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 422
principal conductor • principal character • principal dancer • principal source • principal investigator • principal role • principal reason • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 77
1. principal reason = główny powód principal reason
2. principal cause = główny powód principal cause
  • "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.
(26) theme, motive, idea, motif
Kolokacji: 4
(32) works, axis, mechanism
Kolokacji: 3
(34) focus, stress
Kolokacji: 2
(41) room, bedroom, gallery
Kolokacji: 3
(43) beneficiary, heir
Kolokacji: 2
(48) deity, God
Kolokacji: 2
(49) type, symbol, space
Kolokacji: 3
(50) export, commodity
Kolokacji: 2
(51) entrance, gateway
Kolokacji: 2
(54) obstacle, stronghold, barrier
Kolokacji: 3
(57) planner, strategist, strategy
Kolokacji: 3
(60) editor, application
Kolokacji: 2
(61) island, inhabitant
Kolokacji: 2
(62) vehicle, medium, food
Kolokacji: 3
(64) charge, complaint, accuser
Kolokacji: 3
(65) criteria
Kolokacji: 1
(67) forum, airport
Kolokacji: 2
(69) liaison, link, contact
Kolokacji: 3
(70) grape, Viola
Kolokacji: 2
(71) official, regulator
Kolokacji: 2
(72) virtue, merit
Kolokacji: 2
(73) shrine, mosque
Kolokacji: 2
(74) weakness, flaw
Kolokacji: 2
(75) earner, breadwinner
Kolokacji: 2
(76) keeper, curator
Kolokacji: 2
(77) ancestor, priority
Kolokacji: 2

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