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principal
1. "Although they are both away from their principal partner," she pointed out
2. descriptive for you as the principal events occurred when I was
3. The 'magic wand' principal was all I knew about starship engines before I met you
4. Proverb: 4:7: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding
5. He didn’t have it yet, but sitting in the office waiting to speak to the principal, he knew he was going to get it
6. Sniders had already given it to him, but he knew that students could get these things overturned if they said the right things to the principal
7. The principal stuck her head out of her office, “Johnny Clunker, I will see you now
8. Clunker, are you coming or not?” the principal asked again with an irritated voice as she stuck her head back out
9. b) Compound interest on deposits, where interest is earned on the interest over the principal, calculated at quarterly, half-yearly or yearly period
10. b) Non-refund of the principal on due date
11. The principal one was teaching the Brazilians how to live without being celebrities and escape from the Kassikan
12. His principal amount was down to just three grand and he was on target
13. A set of steep steps led up to the principal passageway into the village
14. 'Go on,' the principal said, as my pause for effect became too long
15. 'Sit down Jitin sir,' the principal said
16. visit, so I asked him to sit in this meeting,' the principal introduced
17. A principal reason for the existence of the Alnwick market at all
18. Davie is just setting out on his principal errand of the day and there are days when he hates his job
19. Some of them went on to principal roles in West End shows, you know
20. teachers and the principal
21. Principal Hartman liked to call you at lunch so it would give him one more thing to
22. I as principal can lessen the penalty, but since the two of you fail to cooperate or
23. Principal Hartman ate as he drove to his castle, seeing the same skeleton
24. Principal Hartman’s secretary called and said that he had made a
25. Principal Hartman said was supposed to invoke thought
26. The clock tower doors opened and out came principal Hartman with a
27. in his eight years than any principal in the history of Collingston High and saw the
28. ” The principal uttered the
29. “None of you are going to pass,” the principal shouted in anger
30. The principal took two small steps back and then charged
31. Principal Greemore now sat at the helm, a level-headed man with two of
32. Greemore had previously served as Principal of
33. This was a reward for you initial prompt partial repayment, but the rest has remained unpaid for 18 weeks, so the interest and principal would be–” he paused while Mr White pulled out a black book from the briefcase on the table
34. “No payment has been received since then leaving 18 weeks of interest at 12% compounded weekly plus the principal meaning that you now owe me $370,348
35. How could he know this? Yes, that is all that we live in isn't it? The principal that one thing can be substituted for another that produces the same output
36. In many great works, almost the whole labour of this kind is committed to some principal clerk
37. The five following are the principal circumstances which, so far as I have been able to
38. employments of labour and stock, can take place only in such as are the sole or principal
39. The exclusive privileges of corporations are the principal means it makes use of for this
40. the principal manufactures of the country, as well as all other artificers subservient to them,
41. In an open country, too, of which the principal produce is corn, a well-inclosed piece of grass will frequently rent higher than any corn field in its neighbourhood
42. Tobacco might be cultivated with advantage through the greater part of Europe ; but, in almost every part of Europe, it has become a principal subject of taxation ; and to collect a tax from every different farm in the country where this plant might happen to be cultivated, would be more difficult, it has been supposed, than to levy one upon its importation at the custom-house
43. In Europe, corn is the principal produce of land, which serves immediately for human food
44. Clothing and lodging, household furniture, and what is called equipage, are the principal objects of the greater part of those wants and fancies
45. Their principal merit, however, arises from their beauty, which renders them peculiarly fit for the ornaments of dress and furniture
46. Food not only constitutes the principal part of the riches of the world, but it is the abundance of food which gives the principal part of their value to many other sorts of riches
47. Even though the world in general were improving, yet if, in the course of its improvements, new mines should be discovered, much more fertile than any which had been known before, though the demand for silver would necessarily increase, yet the supply might increase in so much a greater proportion, that the real price of that metal might gradually fall; that is, any given quantity, a pound weight of it, for example, might gradually purchase or command a smaller and a smaller quantity of labour, or exchange for a smaller and a smaller quantity of corn, the principal part of the subsistence of the labourer
48. In every different stage of improvement, besides, the raising of equal quantities of corn in the same soil and climate, will, at an average, require nearly equal quantities of labour; or, what comes to the same thing, the price of nearly equal quantities; the continual increase of the productive powers of labour, in an improved state of cultivation, being more or less counterbalanced by the continual increasing price of cattle, the principal instruments of agriculture
49. Corn, besides, or whatever else is the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, constitutes, in every civilized country, the principal part of the subsistence of the labourer
50. The difference in their accounts of the populousness of several other principal towns of Chili and Peru is nearly the same ; and as there seems to be no reason to doubt of the good information of either, it marks an increase which is scarce inferior to that of the English colonies
51. In the last years of that century, the Dutch began to encroach upon this monopoly, and in a few years expelled them from their principal settlements in India
52. The silver of the new continent seems, in this manner, to be one of the principal commodities by which the commerce between the two extremities of the old one is carried on ; and it is by means of it, in a great measure, that those distant parts of the world are connected with one another
53. It has not only raised the value of all highland estates, but it has, perhaps, been the principal cause of the improvement of the low country
54. It would be quite otherwise, however, in an unimproved and uncultivated country, where the greater part of the lands could be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, and where the wool and the hide made the principal part of the value of those cattle
55. The whole price of cattle would fall, and along with it both the rent and the pro~t of all those lands of which cattle was the principal produce, that is, of the greater part of the lands of the country
56. It was probably a household manufacture, in which every different part of the work was occasionally performed by all the different members of almost every private family, but so as to be their work only when they had nothing else to do, and not to be the principal business from which any of them derived the greater part of their subsistence
57. The work which is performed in this manner, it has already been observed, comes always much cheaper to market than that which is the principal or sole fund of the workman's subsistence
58. The fine manufacture, on the other hand, was not, in those times, carried on in England, but in the rich and commercial country of Flanders; and it was probably conducted then, in the same manner as now, by people who derived the whole, or the principal part of their subsistence from it
59. But the easy terms upon which the Scotch banking companies accept of repayment are, so far as I know, peculiar to them, and have perhaps been the principal cause, both of the great trade of those companies,and of the benefit which the country has received from it
60. The difficulties, accordingly, which the Bank of England, which the principal bankers in London, and which even the more prudent Scotch banks began, after a certain time, and when all of them had already gone too far, to make about discounting, not only alarmed, but enraged, in the highest degree, those projectors
61. It likewise discounts merchants' bills, and has, upon several different occasions, supported the credit of the principal houses, not only of England, but of Hamburgh and Holland
62. The rent of land and the profits of stock are everywhere, therefore, the principal sources from which unproductive hands derive their subsistence
63. Of those three cities, Paris is by far the most industrious, but Paris itself is the principal market of all the manufactures established at Paris, and its own consumption is the principal object of all the trade which it carries on
64. When the Scotch parliament was no longer to be assembled in it, when it ceased to be the necessary residence of the principal nobility and gentry of Scotland, it became a city of some trade and industry
65. It still continues, however, to be the residence of the principal courts of justice in Scotland, of the boards of customs and excise, etc
66. It has been the principal cause of the rapid progress of our American colonies towards wealth and greatness, that almost their whole capitals have hitherto been employed in agriculture
67. The trade which is carried on in British bottoms between the different ports of the Mediterranean, and some trade of the same kind carried on by British merchants between the different ports of India, make, perhaps, the principal branches of what is properly the carrying trade of Great Britain
68. During the continuance of those confusions, the chiefs and principal leaders of those nations acquired, or usurped to themselves, the greater part of the lands of those countries
69. In the English colonies, of which the principal produce is corn, the far greater part of the work is done by freemen
70. After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers
71. The privileges which we find granted by ancient charters to the inhabitants of some of the principal towns in Europe, sufficiently show what they were before those grants
72. The Witch smiled at the principal as the class
73. But however this may have been, the principal attributes of villanage and slavery being thus taken away from them, they now at least became really free, in our present sense of the word freedom
74. with a principal of an elementary school
75. In countries such as Italy or Switzerland, in which, on account either of their distance from the principal seat of government, of the natural strength of the country itself, or of some other reason, the sovereign came to lose the whole of his authority; the cities generally became independent republics, and conquered all the nobility in their neighbourhood; obliging them to pull down their castles in the country, and to live, like other peaceable inhabitants, in the city
76. To avoid the school principal calling your parents, be reasonable about
77. Spain and Portugal, the proprietors of the principal mines which supply Europe with those metals, have either prohibited their exportation under the severest penalties, or subjected it to a considerable duty
78. The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit, which a nation derives from its foreign trade
79. The two sorts of restraints upon importation above mentioned, together with these four encouragements to exportation, constitute the six principal means by which the commercial system proposes to increase the quantity of gold and silver in any country, by turning the balance of trade in its favour
80. The Dutch, as they are still the principal, were then the only fishers in Europe that attempted to supply foreign nations with fish
81. Those mutual restraints have put an end to almost all fair commerce between the two nations; and smugglers are now the principal importers, either of British goods into France, or of French goods into Great Britain
82. Whispers and gasps were heard among the crowd as they saw Lunarey grab the microphone away from the head principal and take the spotlight to herself
83. " Lunarey now turned to the head principal
84. The head principal tried to grab the microphone from Lunarey's hand, yet Lunarey shoved her aside and kept on unloading at the crowd
85. But the very same circumstances which would have rendered an open and free commerce between the two countries so advantageous to both, have occasioned the principal obstructions to that commerce
86. A nation may import to a greater value than it exports for half a century, perhaps, together; the gold and silver which comes into it during all this time, may be all immediately sent out of it; its circulating coin may gradually decay, different sorts of paper money being substituted in its place, and even the debts, too, which it contracts in the principal nations with whom it deals, may be gradually increasing; and yet its real wealth, the exchangeable value of the annual produce of its lands and labour, may, during the same period, have been increasing in a much greater proportion
87. A particular examination of the nature of the corn trade, and of the principal British laws which relate to it, will sufficiently demonstrate the truth of this assertion
88. It is in years of scarcity, however, when prices are high, that the corn merchant expects to make his principal profit
89. Motivation is one of the principal requirements for success in any endeavor, including, of course, your work
90. They are, however, the principal ones; and there may not, perhaps, be warehouses proper for this purpose in the greater part of the others
91. In facilitating all the different round-about foreign trades of consumption which are carried on in Great Britain, consists the principal advantage of the Portugal trade; and though it is not a capital advantage, it is, no doubt, a considerable one
92. These, however, together with a pretty large lizard, called the ivana or iguana, constituted the principal part of the animal food which the land afforded
93. When Columbus, upon his return from his first voyage, was introduced with a sort of triumphal honours to the sovereigns of Castile and Arragon, the principal productions of the countries which he had discovered were carried in solemn procession before him
94. Even as he stood discussing such matters with his officer, he was always contemplating, strategizing and imagining all sorts of tactical possibilities for his principal task
95. A sort of wooden spade was their principal instrument of agriculture
96. Sharp stones served them for knives and hatchets to cut with; fish bones, and the hard sinews of certain animals, served them with needles to sew with; and these seem to have been their principal instruments of trade
97. The plenty and cheapness of good land, it has already been observed, are the principal causes of the rapid prosperity of new colonies
98. It has occasionally been the policy of France ; and of late, since 1755, after it had been abandoned by all other nations on account of its absurdity, it has become the policy of Portugal, with regard at least to two of the principal provinces of Brazil, Pernambucco, and Marannon
99. The prohibition of exporting from the colonies to any other country but Great Britain, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, naturally tended to lower the price of timber in the colonies, and consequently to increase the expense of clearing their lands, the principal obstacle to their
100. When those high duties were imposed, Great Britain was the sole, and she still continues to be, the principal market, to which the sugars of the British colonies could be exported
