principal target

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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target
noun
uk
/ˈtɑː.ɡɪt/
us
/ˈtɑːr.ɡɪt/
an object shot at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which bullets, bombs, etc. ...
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Aprincipaltargetof human immunity to malaria identified by molecular population genetic and immunological analysis.
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Percy offered both maturity and an insight into the mind of theirprincipaltarget.
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He was theprincipaltargetof the crime.
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Other differences between the systems include the type of host organization for the unit, the range of activities undertaken, and theprincipaltargetgroup.
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And we are theprincipaltargetof the enemy.
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The agency'sprincipaltargetfor 1995–96 is to achieve a net surplus of £3,000.
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Theprincipaltargetfor taxation is the man buying a car.
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That is the first andprincipaltargetthat we have.
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Ourprincipaltargetfor the moment is to reduce waiting lists.
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The agency'sprincipaltargetfor 1995/96 is to achieve a net surplus of £3,000.
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Delay is theprincipaltargetof criticism and the most general.
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Here was aprincipaltarget.
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It is those people who are theprincipaltargetfor the new ring-fenced and limited relief proposed in the clause.
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This recommendation has been theprincipaltargetof attack by the supporters of commerial television, and by the programme companies in particular.
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Theprincipaltargetthat we should seek to achieve is to cut down industrial deafness and therefore the cost of compensating deafness.
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Regional and central inspection staffs have carried the lessons of the raids from raided areas to all the otherprincipaltargetareas.
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Maintaining adequate tissue oxygenation is aprincipaltarget.
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His active intervention in rigging elections in favor of the conservatives made him into theprincipaltargetof the opposition.
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Even if glucocorticoids act primarily at a peripheral level to maintain homeostasis, the brain represents one of the principal targets for these steroid hormones.
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The evidence for visually guided regulation of eye growth is beyond refute, the choroid and sclera being the two principal targets.
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