Sentence examples for principal endeavour from inspiring English sources

Music is my principal endeavour".

Rather, his principal endeavour was to create a state that would lie astride the major overland trade routes that passed from northern India to central and western Asia.

The analysis of the contents of the digestive system of bog bodies had become one of the principal endeavours of investigating such remains.

In this light, the myths are the record of the true history of the principal philosophical endeavour of mankind, and Lévi-Strauss not only wanted to record this endeavour, but also to join it.

The principal concern about docking Endeavour before the Progress is secured is that contact between the shuttle and the station could cause the Russian craft to wobble and damage its docking port.

Above all, this was a company endeavour – 17 principals, a chorus of 90 and 89 orchestral musicians.

Its aim, it declared, was not "to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, that hath been our endeavour".

Increasing efforts have been put towards redressing this imbalance in recent years, and one of the principal phyla in the vanguard of this endeavour is the Annelida.

Peter Walker, principal of Evelyn Grace, stresses old-fashioned discipline and endeavour.

HMAP endeavours to attain this goal in three principal ways.

Although Griffin's immediate priority was to get the space shuttle flying again, he saw his principal task to be that of reengaging NASA with the endeavour of sending humans to explore space beyond low Earth orbits, and he envisioned the eventual establishment of human settlements in other parts of the solar system.