Sentence examples for principal portion from inspiring English sources

Salomon is offering investors cash for the interest portions of the bond, or would swap them for a principal portion.

I am afraid that the situation is so unusual that I cannot be specific, other than to say that, in addition to the principal portion, there is much else that appears complete.

Infantry divisions, known as rifle divisions in the Russian army, are organized and equipped for combat under all conditions of terrain and weather; they comprise the principal portion of the fighting forces of an army.

Beginning in 2010, Freddie bought several billion dollars' worth of "inverse floater" securities — essentially the interest-paying portion of a bundle of mortgages — for its investment portfolio while selling the far less risky principal portion.

The Narmada valley forms the western and principal portion of the Narmada-Son trough, a continuous depression running southwest-northeast, mostly at the base of the Vindhya Range, for about 750 miles (1,200 km).

The principal portion of alapa is not metric but rhythmically free; in Hindustani music it moves gradually to a section known as jor, which uses a rhythmic pulse though no tala (metric cycle).

Salomon has an oversupply of the principal portions of existing bonds but a shortage of the interest-rate portion.

Wall Street firms often break up the interest and the principal portions of a bond and sell them separately as zero-coupon bonds.

The uriniferous tubule is composed of two principal portions: the nephron and the collecting tubule.

In PCA, the first principal component (PC1) accounts for the largest portion of variation in the data set, followed by the second and subsequent PCs.

All the differences between samples involve the second principal component (PC2) which, however, accounts for only a small portion of the spectral variability.