1.  But in Birmingham the railways were never the principal means of transport for the urban commuter.

2.  For a long while, the crime question provided the principal means to underscore the cultural concerns of this new nationalist racism.

3.  For a start, there is the cost of what has traditionally been the principal means of covering risk - insurance.

4.  One government or form of government competes with another, and the principal means are indicated by their military budgets.

5.  The principal means for educating Nonconformist ministers were the various denominational colleges.

6.  Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work.

7.  His book starts with highly explicit descriptions of horrific torture and physical violence, these being the principal means by which social order was maintained in the earlier era.

8.  The principal means whereby the two language varieties interact in conversation is through language alternation in the form of code switching.

9.  A U.S. Treasury Department study identified hawala as the principal means of money laundering from drug trafficking and other crimes in Pakistan.