The Slocum was supplanted as a primary object of the city's mourning.
Freud theorised that all small boys select their mother as their primary object of desire.
I begin with a proposition that ought to be unassailable: Political speech is the primary object of First Amendment protection.
Among the heavenly bodies the primary object of Slavic veneration was the moon.
Lumping them all together as evidence that a war against terror is the primary object of our foreign policy is nonsense.
"The primary object of a novelist is to please; and this man's novels have been found more pleasant than those of any other writer," he admitted.
Given the situation of the Jewish Diaspora following the revolts against Rome in the 1st and 2nd centuries ce, the individual pattern became the primary object of concern.
The primary object of this exhaustive analysis was an understanding not so much of outer nature as of the human person (puggala).
For years the two were friends, but after a falling-out Ms. Harrison aligned herself with Sharen S. Benenson, a park trustee who up to then had been the primary object of Mr. James's populist agitations.
"A great many must be walking over England nowadays for the primary object of writing books," wrote Edward Thomas, who spent the years immediately before the first world war doing just that.
The primary object of the PHTs' ire is Average Joe, the stereotypical, overweight, working-class male who's a junk food addict and a betting shop regular, when he isn't impersonating a beer-swilling, chain-smoking couch potato – and they're also not fond of Average Jane's "addiction" to an artificial tan.
