Sentence examples for the principal agent from inspiring English sources

Or, rather, that such a spectacle would not serve the candidate deemed to be the principal agent of it.

Besides erosion, which is the principal agent that destroys mountain belts, two tectonic processes help to reduce high elevations.

The director has his doubts, pointing out that Goldman Sachs – depicted here as the principal agent of wickedness – was the largest private contributor to the Obama campaign.

He was certainly the principal agent in their conversion, a fact of great significance for the history of the Christian church and of Europe.

Thus, the role of methane on Titan may be similar to that of water on Earth; that is, it may be the principal agent behind erosion processes.

This is incongruent with the principal agent literature aiming at designing managerial incentive contracts.

One reason is what economists call the principal-agent problem.

EVER since the inception of the corporation, the "principal-agent" problem has bedevilled shareholders.

George Costanza was a comic incarnation of the principal-agent problem.

The structure of the firm has thus changed from the classic principal-agent model to the principal-agent-agent model.

[C11.] An Economic Model for Bad Ballots Bad ballot designs and clunky election processes survive in part because of what economists call the principal-agent problem.