The phrase "a principal response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the main or most important reply to a question or situation.
Example: "In the discussion, the researcher provided a principal response to the concerns raised by the participants."
Alternatives: "a primary response" or "a key response".
GMT— it matched their claim," said Vikram Thakur, a principal response manager at Symantec, a computer security firm.
A Principal Response Curve analysis (PRC) showed the escalation and prolongation of changes in aquatic community composition by the successive annual treatments of each insecticide over two years.
For over 30 years - as long as humanitarian action has been a principal response in the west to the crises of the poor world - a favourite metaphor has been to "wake people up" to what was really going on.
A multivariate analysis based on principal response curves indicated that communities in streams exposed to 222 419 mg/L were significantly different from the controls leading to an overall (multivariate and univariate) conclusion that 0.106 mg/L was the ecosystem NOEC.
Kennedy's principal response was that a recession would be far more injurious to the dollar and the deficit.
Principal response curve analysis, a constrained form of principal components analysis, demonstrated consistency with univariate analyses and identified similar populations as being sensitive to HSAS.
District Council 37's principal response to the layoffs has been to plan a street rally on April 29 to protest concessions and layoffs and to urge the mayor, as it has often before, to stop giving city work to private contractors.
Van den Brink, P. J. & Ter Braak, C. J. F. Principal response curves: analysis of time-dependent multivariate responses of a biological community to stress.
The principal response from the Clinton administration has been to try to persuade the oil-producing nations to reverse course.
When the nightmare is over, silence is his principal response to it, but not his only one.
The National Emergency Co-Ordination Group met again yesterday and warned that principal response agencies in the east of the country were "still in full crisis management mode".
