But the band's driving force was Bryan Ferry, its principal songwriter, lead singer and sometime keyboardist, as well as the architect (by way of his art school friend Antony Price) of the group's glamorous visual style.
Its opponents believe the principal force to be kin selection: when individuals favor kin (other than offspring), the evolution of altruistic behavior is favored.
The dead hand of the Middle Ages seemed to many vigorous minds in western Europe the principal force to be combatted, through critical reason, enlightenment, and, where necessary, major reform or revolution.
Appeals to shared values, inducements, persuasion, and force, are the four principal types of external influences that are discussed.
Because the principal force of Phylogenie is to automatically produce a large number of phylogenetic analyses in batch, it does not allow interactive filtering of BLAST hits before phylogenetic reconstruction.
Admati is the principal force behind the Washington conference, which is being held under the auspices of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Prior to the arrival of General Stedman, the principal medical officer of the forces was required to organise the medical arrangements, and Surgeon-Captain Davis, I.M.S., was entrusted with the details.
Grant is the principal force in this story; Max is an accessory.
In 1970, when President Richard M. Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Mr. Mazzocchi was credited with being a principal force behind the legislation.
He was involved in the creation of the structured credit effort at BSAM and was a principal force behind Bear Stearns' position as a leading underwriter and secondary trader of structured finance securities, specifically CDOs and esoteric ABS.
Thomas was the principal force behind Project Euclid, a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative to support the cost-effective online dissemination of mathematics and statistics journals.
