Sentence examples for principal meaning from inspiring English sources

Brazilian patent law is based on the first-to-file principal, meaning whoever first applies for a patent will be its owner if it is granted.

Currently, endowed funds yield about 5% of their principal, meaning a gift of $100,000 will grant the YSO $5,000 a year.

They introduced me to its Principal Strategic Investments group — principal meaning they invest [Goldman's] own, not their clients', money.

This contravenes the principal meaning of waste minimization, which is to avoid waste generation in the first place (Pongracz 2002).

A common selling point in regard to fixed-indexed annuities is the guarantee of principal (meaning that you will never lose a dime of your money that you pay to it).

In Irenaeus, Grant sees the principal meaning to be God's saving plan of salvation revealed through the prophets, though he recognizes a secondary usage applied to the work of Jesus recounted by Luke.

WHY: For me, watching birds has two principal meanings.

But we may assume, I think, that all three principal meanings of the word are involved.

In addition, in many states close to 100 percent of teachers receive ratings of satisfactory or better from their principals, meaning that most teachers are never given any indication that they are ineffective.

A majority of these startups are founded on the basis of decentralization and open-source principals, meaning their code is open and they release it under the Apache 2.0 or similar open-source license.

But the Treasury Department would pay out $3.8 billion in incentives for the principal reductions, meaning a $2.1 billion net loss for the taxpayer.