The phrase "principal desire" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to the main or most important desire that a person has. Example: Her principal desire in life was to become a successful artist, but she also had a strong passion for traveling.
But his principal desire was for another man – usually a man whose principal desire was for a woman.
The problems that beset both the Rump and the Nominated Parliament resulted from the diversity of groups that supported the revolution, ranging from pragmatic men of affairs, lawyers, officeholders, and local magistrates whose principal desire was to restore and maintain order to zealous visionaries who wished to establish heaven on earth.
"He is and always has been a loyal officer whose principal desire is to do his job".
"Flotation remains the principal desired method of achieving liquidity for shareholders," the firm said in a statement after weekend reports that Lehman Brothers, one of several Wall Street firms mentioned in takeover speculation, was pressing for a deal.
It is also clear that the PTA is mobilizing support for its proposals though the dialogue by playing the game differently depending on what the principal desires.
"At the heart of those agreements was the principals' desire to avoid the public humiliation of a discontinuance," Ms. Levy wrote.
"Even after I became a principal, my desire to do something big was still not satisfied," he said.
Newly affluent Indonesians are certainly spending.Take one of their principal objects of desire, two-wheel scooters.
The prime minister emphasized that this policy was founded upon two principal goals: (1) the desire to protect children (Trudeau acknowledged a study of 29 countries that indicated that young people in Canada already had the easiest access to obtaining illegal marijuana) and (2) a commitment to preventing organized crime from profiting from the sales of illegal marijuana.
A transformation of number of correlated variables into a smaller number of uncorrelated principal components was not desired either, because we wanted to identify single compounds with potential to explain bird attraction.
Somehow we teachers must overcome our troubling concerns and apprehensions – whether they involve parental conflicts with accompanying media and legal backlashes, principals' well-meaning desires to keep parent school peace by misguidedly pressuring science teachers to use less effective pedagogy, or any other of the variety of concerns and apprehensions that exist.
