Capital as contrasted with the income derived from it.
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Examples for "principal "
Examples for "principal "
1 The principal importing countries were France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
2 Acting principal family court judge David Smith said that needed to change.
3 A B is the principal meridian; C D is the base line.
4 PROBLEM: I am a principal of a large Dublin boys' secondary school.
5 Adventure School principal John Wootton said the threat to children was unacceptable.
1 It also provides that such default interest should not exceed that contracted as due on the principal sum .
2 If the debt falls into our hands, we will take only the principal sum named in the bond.}
3 With a perpetual bond, the issuer does not repay the principal sum , but can pay interest on it without a fixed end.
4 If such a debt falls into the hands of the Crown, it will take nothing except the principal sum specified in the bond.
5 The board is authorized to receive bequests for education, and invest the principal sums when the interest only is to be expended.
1 It originates in a remarkable part of the ovary, the corpus luteum.
2 Seventy-two hours later, gastric corpus tissues were taken for quantitative histological assessment.
3 So Maliwe was marched, carrying the corpus delicti, in to the gaol.
4 But Lincoln suspended habeas corpus without waiting for Congress to authorize it.
5 The privileges of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.
6 These findings suggest that the corpus callosum helps to drive language lateralization.
7 Above circled three news helicopters, broadcasting this corpus of destruction and misery.
8 Harrison took the writ of habeas corpus and proceeded to San Francisco.
9 Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase meaning you may have the body.
10 This perinatal event contributes to the corpus callosum acquiring a mature topography.
11 Two patients had a cervical location, the two other had corpus location.
12 Timson can get out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus .
13 She never kept a photograph album apart from her corpus of sketches.
14 The act of habeas corpus , which passed this session, served these purposes.
15 HT male mice appeared to be protected from H. pylori-induced corpus lesions.
16 Another thing my fathers had fought for flashed through my brain-habeas corpus .
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