The phrase "a primary element in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is a fundamental or essential part of a larger concept or system.
Example: "Trust is a primary element in building strong relationships."
Alternatives: "a key component of" or "an essential part of".
The push is a primary element in the company's quest to become one of the world's five largest automakers by 2010.
Water is also a primary element in short films by the artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, who was born in Japan in 1968, was educated in the United States and now lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
Expanding the knowledge of reinforcement behaviour and capacity, specifically that of the rockbolt as a primary element in seismic conditions, would help to develop a suitable, safe and economic support design.
This indeed cuts out certain classes of speculations and enforces the need for confined microspaces as a primary element in the origin of life.
Indeed, the willingness of New Jersey commissioners to consider such increases was a primary element last May in resolving an 18-month impasse between the two states that had blocked most major initiatives by the agency.
After 2 years of planning, methadone substitution treatment was introduced in December 2014 as a primary element of HIV prevention and drug treatment strategy.
On the one hand, natural law theory holds that law's "source-based character"—its dependence upon social facts such as legislation, custom or judicially established precedents is a fundamental and primary element in "law's capacity to advance the common good, to secure human rights, or to govern with integrity" (cf. Green 2003).
Gabriel Shanks, the executive director of the Drama League, described the move as the primary element in a "wholesale transformation" of the group, founded in 1916.
Methane, the primary element in natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas and is responsible for 10percentt of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. It packs 84 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years that it's present in the atmosphere, according to the EDF.
Ms. Weingarten is not proposing that they be the only — or even the primary — element in determining teacher quality.
The type of sialic acid linkage to HA glycoprotein was considered to be primary element in host tropism (Hamilton et al., 2012).
