Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

Of course the principal factor in the whole experience was the kind of education he received.

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U.S. was in reality the principal.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.

Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.

The principal mauler, however, was Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The principal tactic in controlling the ball was giving it to Abner Haynes, the flashy halfback.

There was also the fact that by the time he meets Mr. Khrushchev, the President will have completed conversations with all the other principal Allied leaders.

South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

Ships from the West Coast rotated on six-month tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka was the Seventh Fleet's principal port for maintenance, upkeep and shore liberty.

Apollo was worshipped as Actiacus ( ; Ἄκτιακός, Aktiakos, literally " Actian "), Delphinius ( ; Δελφίνιος, Delphinios, literally " Delphic "), and Pythius ( ; Πύθιος, Puthios, from Πυθώ, Pūthō, the area around Delphi ), after Actium ( Ἄκτιον ) and Delphi ( Δελφοί ) respectively, two of his principal places of worship.

But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

The last and principal acquisition was that of Toftfield ( afterwards named Huntlyburn ), purchased in 1817.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

I must say the figure was well made up.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.

He was all of these rolled into one sturdy figure ; ;

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The figure was wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence.

The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.

The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.

Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

The anode in figure 2 was mounted by means of the anode holder which was attached to a steel plug and disk.