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The phrase "a principal issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the main or most important problem or topic in a particular context.
Example: "The report highlighted a principal issue that needs to be addressed before moving forward with the project."
Alternatives: "a key issue" or "a major concern".
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A principal issue at the hearings will be Mr. Ashcroft's record on race issues and other civil rights matters.
That has emerged as a principal issue for the Securities and Exchange Commission as it contemplates what changes are needed in the rules that govern trading.
Previous Republican administrations have said they were enforcing the law while regularly petitioning the justices to overturn Roe, sometimes seeking opportunities in cases where it was not a principal issue.
"This wouldn't have happened if they had listened to us in those years back then," said Mr. Wimms, a 39-year-old construction worker, recalling that police treatment of black Cincinnatians -- the issue that drove the wave of protest and vandalism by clusters of angry blacks this week -- was also a principal issue in the 1968 violence.
A principal issue in High Cycle Fatigue (HCF) of polycrystalline metals is the degree of heterogeneity of cyclic slip processes.
A principal issue investigated in this paper is whether a conditional moment closure-flamelet approach can be applied to accurately account for differential diffusion effects.
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Sparta, triumphant over Athens, built a small empire of its own and was soon involved in a war against the Persians, the principal issue again being the Greek cities of Asia Minor.
In the late 1950s the question of a compulsory pension for all employees became a principal political issue.
"Wages are always an issue, but they are not the principal issue," said Susan Bianchi-Sandirectortof of United American Nurses, the labor union affiliate of the American Nurses Association.
The third principal issue that concerned Bosanquet is what happens when a person encounters a work of art, i.e., aesthetic appreciation.
Many voters say that the principal issue for them is jobs in a state hit particularly hard by unemployment and the property crash.
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