Sentence examples for its principal reason from inspiring English sources
But what this understanding misses is the historical fact that, until very recently, capital punishment was explicitly arbitrary, and openly cruel: its principal reason for being was to set an example of the infinite power of the state over the lives of its subjects.
Its principal reason for rejecting the recommendation of countless experts, including a former law lord, the former director of public prosecutions and the former head of MI5, seems to be that allowing this type of evidence in court will lead to more complex and costly trials.
Though his principal reason for wanting to conserve the place was to protect its white uakari monkeys (pictured above), that entailed protecting the whole ecosystem.
Still, the commission acknowledges that it has no hard data to support its suspicions, a principal reason it has been unable to stage an assault against the practice.
Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU.
Disney executives cited it as a principal reason for the 7percentt decline in operating income in the studio entertainment division.
The principal reason for its popularity is that, in the UK at least, possessing and inhaling nitrous oxide remains legal.
Whatever business errors deCode may have made, a principal reason for its downfall is scientific — the genetic nature of human disease has turned out to be far more complex than thought.
Faced with these contradictions, some scholars are now positing the distinctive nature of the U.S. economy and its labor market as a principal reason why Americans are having so many kids.
This decline of its only population is the principal reason that C. guadalupensis is currently classified as endangered by the Mexican government [8] and is included in the IUCN Red List [9], [10].
