Sentence examples for Principal from inspiring English sources

The Committee will maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its securities holdings.

On the other hand, ever since the euro crisis, Merkel's principal goal is to immunise Europe's economic union against further currency shocks.

In Sicily, a principal transit point for Italy, cash-strapped local authorities have struggled to offer even the most modest shelter.

The preparations by the "golden triangle" – cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Queen's private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt, and the prime minister's principal private secretary, Chris Martin – show how discreet work is underway as Whitehall gears up for a second successive hung parliament, which could prove still more complicated than the last one.

The decision means that the Queen, who appeared alongside her father George VI and Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham palace on VE Day in 1945, will miss the principal anniversary events in London during the weekend after the election and into the following week.

Related: Charles Kennedy, former leader of Liberal Democrats, dies aged 55 He was defined politically by the Iraq war as much as any other event, just as it defined its principal protagonists, Bush and Blair.

According to the book's principal character, Oskar Matzerath, "there is no such thing as a part-time partisan.

News that Jonathan Nott - who has transformed the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in the 15 years he's been its principal conductor - is to start a new job with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva in 2017 (his contract ends in Bamberg next year), brings with it the coincidence of a planned new hall for the Swiss orchestra, replacing the Suisse Romande's current home, the Victoria Hall.

Raising such sums in current circumstances is recognised as the principal challenge by the academics, led by Prof Andy Gouldson of the University of Leeds which collaborates in the Centre for Low Carbon Futures with the universities of York (co-authors of the report), Hull and Sheffield.

Rachel Andrew, principal clinical psychologist, children and young people's mental health, East Lancashire When I started in the NHS I thought it was inconceivable that I would ever leave, but I certainly don't feel like that any more.

They played a raunchy set of old Shadows of Knight, Bo Diddley, Stones and Count Five songs, but were short lived: "We were banned after one assembly by the principal," recalls Tommy, "'cause some people got hurt by Johnny's guitar".