The moon is the prime instrument of navigation.
He believed that the university was a "prime instrument of national purpose".
On the "Sun Ship" date, Coltrane stuck to tenor saxophone, his prime instrument — and the one that Ayler mainly played.
Together with the parallel work by Eusebius of Caesarea, George's work constitutes the prime instrument for interpreting Christian chronography concerning the primitive church.
The army and naval branches of a nation's armed forces may also operate aircraft, but the air force usually remains the prime instrument of a nation's air power.
Without the help of vibrato, the bow becomes the prime instrument of expression, a paradigm change that requires more than a couple of rehearsals with a visiting conductor.
It contaminated the entire California Master Plan for Education, the three-tiered system established in 1960 by Clark Kerr, then the U.C. president, to make higher education universally available as "the prime instrument of national purpose".
Although such devices can handle quickly the logic of vast amounts of relatively simple information, they cannot match the flexibility and complexity of the human brain, still the prime instrument for managing the subtleties of most human communication.
Among the curiosities is a center console shaped like a snowshoe; high on the dash, in the toe of that snowshoe, is a large, lidded storage bin -- it can handle 8 compact disk cases or 10 cassettes -- in what should be prime instrument real estate.
For the 106-minute running time of All Is Lost, Redford delivers a masterclass in the art of screen acting, using his prime instrument – his body – to deliver a galvanising, physically gruelling, deeply emotional performance that would be electrifying coming from someone half his age.
Its prime instrument for the purpose is the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise).
