The posterior leaflike gills serve principally for respiration; feeding is carried out by the palp proboscides, which collect surface detritus.
In contemporary cryptography, transpositions serve principally as one of several encryption steps in forming a compound or product cipher.
Instead, 2 Columbus Circle has been sitting empty for four years, serving principally as a giant screen on which advertisements are projected after dark.
As with all the best powerpop, though, the verses serve principally as a delivery vehicle to get you to the chorus via the most efficient route possible.
National political conventions in America have become largely meaningless theater, serving principally as coronations for a party nominee whose selection by thousands of delegates is entirely preordained.
The absence of vowel letters was not at first a problem, because Hebrew, like other Semitic languages, has consonantal roots, with vowels serving principally to denote inflections in nouns, moods of verbs, and other grammatical variations.
But the raw numbers and the details of the interventions that he announced served principally to underline the bleakness of Britain's medium-term economic prospects and the continued squeeze on voters' living standards.
The idiom is organized in terms of chivalry around female glory: men in black tunics and tights serve principally as cavaliers and as background to women who are resplendent in white tutus.
These diverse start sites led to the translation of alternate protein isoforms as well as short reading frames that likely served principally as decoys repressing translation of a protein-coding gene.
He was just there, going on hunger strikes, one of the prisoners whose detention seemed to serve principally as a justification for Guantánamo rather than as a route to justice — including justice for the victims of 9/11, who deserve better than that sort of legal farce.
