Sentence examples for principal of state from inspiring English sources

3) Is contributor a principal of state contractor or prospective state contractor?

However, when anti-slavery forces in Congress tried to expunge a clause in Missouri's state constitution that would have prevented free blacks from settling in the state, Floyd opposed on the principal of state's rights to decide its own matters and also because he was opposed to the growing Federal power.

A gaming tax and the sales tax are the principal sources of state income.

In 1672, during the absence abroad of Arlington and Sir William Coventry, Clifford acted as principal secretary of state.

The investigative and satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné broke the news, such as it was, describing a naked president with "the principal organs of state" in view.

Nonetheless, the main audience for the most important festivals of the principal gods of state held in capital cities may have been the ruling elite rather than the people as a whole.

The Romans developed a more sophisticated system under their empire, creating distinct administrative hierarchies for justice, military affairs, finance and taxation, foreign affairs, and internal affairs, each with its own principal officers of state.

The Drex documents had been signed and sealed first by the office of the deputy governor of the BVI, then by a "member of the staff of the governor and commander-in-chief, British Virgin Islands" and finally by an official on behalf of "Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs".

Chief among these was Cecil (afterward Lord Burghley), whom Elizabeth appointed her principal secretary of state on the morning of her accession and who was to serve her (first in this capacity and after 1571 as lord treasurer) with remarkable sagacity and skill for 40 years.

In 1619, Calvert completed his rise to power when James appointed him as one of the two principal secretaries of state.

Trade growth, GDP, global integration were among the principal preoccupations of state houses and board rooms, interspersed with the occasional conflict or political setback.