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The ceiling of the principal room was and remains an architectural jewel.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hels 2009
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The ceiling of the principal room was and remains an architectural jewel.
French Colonial Architecture in Algiers Hels 2009
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He is a devoted if selective Freudian, and one of the prin-cipal sources of his cited evidence favoring certain psychoanalytic propositions has been the supposedly informative Ror-schach test.
'Out, Damned Blot' Masling, Joseph 2004
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Flinx had attracted the attention of the prin-cipal protagonist in the unpleasant domestic drama being played out near the entrance to the kitchen.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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The prin-cipal's secretary wanted to know if everything was all right and reminded Cindy that calling the parents was procedure when a child didn't show up for class.
The Otherworld Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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However, the fact that British spy Judah Benjamin was a prin - cipal architect of the assassination-plot, and confederate of Belmont in the secession conspiracy, puts a different light on the matter.
Europe 1992: BackTrail of The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr 1988
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They thought he was foolish to throw away his prin - cipal weapon.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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They thought he was foolish to throw away his prin - cipal weapon.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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However, while in Aristotle the causes for Fortune are Mind (for For - tune) and Nature (for Chance), in Chalcidius the prin - cipal cause of both Fortune and Chance is Fate.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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Eduard Bernstein, for all his acceptance of the benefits secured by the worker as the consequence of the new social legislation, had no doubt that Germany's political system was essentially undemocratic, and that a prin - cipal purpose of his political effort ought to be to achieve democracy.
DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968
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