With its many interfaces to various business processes and stakeholders across the life-cycle, it is a primary driver for requirements engineering in its focus on value-orientation and consistency across releases.
It is a primary shaper of values and beliefs.
It is a primary race that has spawned a soap opera-like drama.
Social privilege and the lack of it is a primary theme.
"It is a primary drinking supply for tens of thousands of residents," he said of the reservoir.
It is a primary feedstock for ethylene, the building block of countless other products, such as plastics and tyres.
And it is a primary reason that so-called play-or-pay proposals have had an unsteady history for nearly two decades.
Limnologists and hydrobiologists are attentive to the dissolved oxygen content of the water because it is a primary indicator of water quality.
It was bullying, it was harassment, it was what Lewinsky called shaming and misogyny, and it is a primary reason that Lewinsky doesn't call herself a "Feminist, with a capital F", even though she appreciates what feminists have done.
Unlike zinfandel, which has been an American phenomenon partly because the grape is grown almost nowhere else, merlot achieves greatness in Bordeaux, where it is a primary grape in St.-Emilion and Pomerol.
Today there are thought to be 15 million Australians on Facebook – 62.5% of the population, and an advance of 1 million even on the previous year – and it is a primary news source for many of them.
