Sentence examples for so, principally from inspiring English sources

They did so principally because the structural advantages of a unitary executive are essential in these domains.

"It's because of this myth that these people will be executed in a couple of months," explains Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Centre.All states that execute people do so principally by lethal injection.

An art world that has accepted, reluctantly or not, elephant dung (Chris Ofili), urine (Andy Warhol, Andres Serrano) and sheer nothingness (Yves Klein) as art has done so principally out of an appreciation for the artist's agency: typically, what the artist has to say about society, and how this is materialized through the art.

It was wrong for me to cut corners but I did so principally through naivety.

"It was wrong for me to cut corners but I did so principally through naivety," said the Newmarket-based trainer.

"It was wrong for me to cut corners but I did so principally through naivety," he said.

For most of its life, "so" has principally been a conjunction, an intensifier and an adverb.

But for most of its life, "so" has principally been a conjunction, an intensifier and an adverb.

Interestingly, for a film based on a single idea, it is the sum of its parts that make it so timeless – principally Jerry Goldsmith's eerie, organic score – while the cast makes easy work of ensuring the apes are simultaneously terrifying and, in the case of in Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall as Zira and Cornelius, incredibly sympathetic.

Mars: Although further from the sun, is less massive than Earth or Venus, and so retains principally only the heavy gas, carbon dioxide.

I think the president rightfully so is principally concerned with stopping the flow and the damage.