1.   His character sketches of the principal players are sharp, perceptive and often very funny.

2.   ...the lackadaisical attitude of a number of the principal players.

3.   Along the way, these anti-Knicks made one celebrated coaching change, tinkered a bit, but the principal players remained the same.

4.   As it turned out, the key horses were different but the principal players remained the same.

5.   A letter from two BSO principal players accused Ozawa of wasting rehearsal time and running up excessive overtime.

6.   All the principal players are lending their talents at no charge, an almost unheard of gesture in Hollywood.

7.   Falk Maertens, a principal player of the orchestra, rendered the companion trumpet part with wit as well as virtuosity.

8.   Happily, his mentor, Ralph Jones, the principal bass player of the Atlanta Symphony, is helping Thompson arrange financing for a new instrument.

9.   He was not a principal player in the controversy that thrust the village he helped create into the national consciousness.

10.   House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested creating a special select committee to oversee any inquiry of the president, while making clear that Hyde would be a principal player.