Sentence examples for principal effect was from inspiring English sources

The addition of gallium was found to produce an enhancement of benzene production in the early stages of reaction, but its principal effect was the reduction of hydrogen producing side reactions associated with the formation of coke.

Although some provisions of the legislation were aimed at preventing the proliferation of racist or sectarian views online, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said its principal effect was to place severe restrictions on the rights to free expression and free association and assembly.

Instead, its principal effect is to delay ovulation.

Its principal effect is to narrow our emotional and mental field of vision.

As Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority: "DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal".

The drug's principal effect is to prevent ovulation, but it may also make the lining of the uterus less hospitable to a fertilized egg.

ALL democratic systems have their quirks, and America's is the electoral college, an 18th-century oddity whose principal effect is to ensure that the president is chosen not by the overall popular vote, but by the outcome in a handful of big "swing states".

As expected, by far the correlation principal effect is the most important on the frequency values.

The principal effect is the reduced vapour pressure of the solution which is shown to have a significant effect on the location of the interface when the concentration of the solution at the wet face of the concrete is low and the relative humidity of air at the dry face is high.

"DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal," he said.

DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal.