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Meanings of principal means in English

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Usage of principal means in English
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The Revolutionary Tribunals constituted the principal means of action of the Terror.
The Psychology of Revolution
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Cerebral hypothermia is the principal means of providing neurologic protection during cardiac surgery.
Pubmed
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The principal means of transport is old, underpowered buses and horse and trap.
The Guardian
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Ornament is one of the principal means of enhancing the value of the raw material.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887
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The principal means of making mechanical memorization less prominent.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
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The East Indian railway and the Grand Trunk road afford the principal means of land communication.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Under the old dispensation of Indian supremacy it supplied the natives their principal means of support.
Arizona Sketches
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The exclusive privileges of corporations are the principal means it makes use of for this purpose.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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It was this Bible rather than the a-b-c book that became the principal means of instruction.
The Soul of a Child
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These small vessels afforded the principal means of transportation through the uncharted wilderness tidewaters of Virginia.
New Discoveries at Jamestown / Site of the First Successful Engl...
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These are the principal means of preserving the state, but perpetual care will also be required.
Laws
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Our principal means of communication is the telephone.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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At any chosen moment the demons could have deprived them of their principal means of existence!
Dark Universe
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The fourth is that the principal means proposed for obviating it would be inexpedient in the extreme.
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
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But apart from this, the principal means of communication are the navigable streams and the waggon roads.
Mexico / Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political...
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Some of these tribes were named the Hare Indians-hares and fish being their principal means of support.
The Pioneers
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