The phrase "a principal position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a leading or primary role within an organization or context.
Example: "She was appointed to a principal position within the company, overseeing all major projects."
Alternatives: "a leading role" or "a key position".
The purpose was to signal that Pakistan must "have a role — a principal position — in negotiating the end of the conflict".
If there was a principal position open or an assistant principal position open and somebody in the section was auditioning for it, the screen keeps it clean because they're looking at colleagues.
And last October, during the Q3 earnings call, CEO Jerry Yang said "We believe having a principal position in both search and display advertising is critical to creating that long-term value".
In a conference call last October with analysts, Yang said: "We believe having a principal position in both search and display advertising is critical to creating … long-term shareholder value".
Polymyxins, known since 1947, are mostly represented by polymyxin E (colistin), which has recently gained a principal position in the management of the most difficult-to-treat MDR Gram-negative pathogens – Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Upon Sessions' forced resignation, several prominent legal scholars wrote in a New York Times op-ed that Whitaker's appointment was unconstitutional under the Appointments Clause, given that the role of attorney general is a "principal" position requiring Senate confirmation. .
"A lot of people who are gainfully employed in education can't take a year off; we will put them in an assistant principal position while they take classes at night in educational administration.
The new contract provides raises of more than 23percentt and also establishes a new executive principal position that will pay bonuses of up to $25,000 a year to principals who agree to work for up to three years in a troubled school.
"She is supportive of parent efforts to get the funds reinstated," an article in Backpack News, the school newsletter, said of the principal, "but indicated that, as an applicant for the permanent principal position, she feels it is a conflict of interest to pressure Pat Romandetto" on the issue.
Topics in the questionnaire were the person's sex, practice type preference, and current position (working in a group or in a single-handed practice, a principal or a non-principal position).
The preference for practice type was defined as the number of GPs who were looking for a position in (a) a single-handed practice, (b) a group practice, (c) a non-principal position or (d) had no particular practice type preference.
