Sentence examples for were principal from inspiring English sources

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were principal

noun

The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

  • A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.

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In Argentina, big Spanish banks and businesses were principal targets of local anger after the crash.

Both nominees were principal figures in the session, which was held in a politically charged atmosphere.

Allan Vogel, oboist; David Shifrin, clarinetist; and Frank Morelli, bassoonist, were principal players in this fine performance.

At the time, he argued that the faltering economy and tight credit were principal causes of Detroit's hardship.

Until 1642 the Dalai Lamas were principal abbots of the Dge-lugs-pa, and in that year they acquired temporal and spiritual rule of Tibet.

The company has clinical data that has been submitted to the F.D.A. for approval, according to a few doctors who were principal investigators.

The issue of access to services has become an explosive new cause in the same urban townships and rural squatter camps that were principal battlegrounds in the fight against apartheid.

From March to December 2001, the men, operating out of a storefront on Myrtle Avenue, were principal suppliers of fake DVD's and CD's to street vendors throughout the metropolitan area, the United States attorney's office said.

The global panic touched off by Lehman's collapse has receded, thanks largely to all those bailouts and other government life support for banks and firms that were principal architects of the mess.

The feasters in the shack, who, after all, were principal players in that drama, want nothing more to do with it: "Should we watch something else?" "Let's turn it off.

Mr. Roh as recently as two months ago led by 20percentt in some polls, before it became clear that two of Mr. Kim's sons were principal targets of the investigation.

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