Sentence examples for principal instrument from inspiring English sources

Using spare instrumentation under space conditions, he tested the Gas Analysis Package the principal instrument onboard Beagle 2, whose role was to make stable isotope measurements of gases including hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide.

Dams are the principal instrument of the hard path.

He may be the only musician who has ever made it his principal instrument.

The principal instrument used in acoustic phonetic studies is the sound spectrograph.

His own principal instrument was soprano saxophone, which he played with focused intensity.

"The book is not the principal instrument for us to acquire and transfer knowledge anymore," she said.

One of the principal instruments in Brussels is diplomatic lobbying by member states.

Particularly important was his confirmation of the new Jesuit order, which was to provide the papacy with one of its principal instruments in promoting the Counter-Reformation.

Three principal instruments are to be on board, all designed to gather images of the universe in the infrared parts of the light spectrum best for picturing faint, early light.

In Borneo among the Malay, Kadazan, and Iban groups, the principal instruments are gongs in a row (gulintangan) played with suspended gongs of different types (canang, gong, tawak-tawak).

But they are also the principal instruments of a system which allows the Israelis to control Palestinian society by alternating increasing and decreasing pressure on it, while the costs of the occupation are passed on to donors, most of them European.