Egypt has been one of the leading recipients among the Mediterranean partners in terms of total funds received from the MEDA programme, the principal financial instrument of the European Union for the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

The council of ministers became the principal instrument of government in 1954.

Quills were the principal writing instrument in the Western World from the 6th to the 19th century.

Timbrel or tabret ( the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the deff of Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain ), the principal musical instrument of percussion of the Israelites, similar to the modern tambourine.

Note: The principal applications of off-axis optical systems are to avoid obstruction of the primary aperture by secondary optical elements, instrument packages, or sensors, and to provide ready access to instrument packages or sensors at the focus.

Although the whistle is essentially a diatonic instrument, it is possible to get notes outside the principal major key of the whistle, either by half-holing ( partially covering the highest open finger hole ) or by cross-fingering ( covering some holes while leaving some higher ones open ).

His principal instrument in this effort was an office from outside the SS, a Nazi party organ, the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle ( VoMi ), translated as the Ethnic German Liaison Office.

On New Year's Day the principal ceremony was conducted with the shofar, which instrument was placed in the center with a trumpet on either side ; it was the horn of a wild goat and straight in shape, being ornamented with gold at the mouthpiece.

"... legal instrument reflecting the relationship between the United States Government and a State, a local government, or other entity when 1 ) the principal purpose of the relationship is to transfer a thing of value to the State or local government or other recipient to carry out a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a law of the United States instead of acquiring ( by purchase, lease, or barter ) property or services for the direct benefit or use of the United States Government ; and 2 ) substantial involvement is not expected between the executive agency and the State, local government, or other recipient when carrying out the activity contemplated in the agreement.

The principal instrument of this education was the classical course of seven years, in which the first three years were devoted to learning languages as necessary tools.

This was sometimes the principal violinist, who could use his bow as a baton, or a lutenist who would move the neck of his instrument in time with the beat.

At the end of 1850 the great transit circle of 203 mm ( 8 inch ) aperture and 3. 5 m ( 11 ft 6 in ) focal length was erected, and is still the principal instrument of its class at the observatory.

In Considérations sur la France (" Considerations on France ," 1796 ), Maistre claimed that France has a divine mission as the principal instrument of good and evil on Earth.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples ' Rights is the region's principal human rights instrument and emerged under the aegis of the Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) ( since replaced by the African Union ).

The Metropolitan Board of Works ( MBW ) was the principal instrument of London-wide government from 1855 until the establishment of the London County Council in 1889.

The pipa reached a height of popularity during the Tang Dynasty, and was a principal musical instrument in the imperial court.

Five years elapsed before they forced Davy Stockbrokers to inform investors, who lost tens of millions of Euro, that ‘‘ the instrument sold was not compliant with the Trustees ( Authorised Investments ) Order at the time of its sale as it was not listed on a recognised Stock Exchange ’’ and it " dealt as principal in both the purchase and sale and was in breach of the rules of the Irish Stock Exchange by not disclosing this fact on its contract note ’’.

They are used both in Afro-Caribbean religious music and as the principal instrument in rumba.

Tunick's principal instrument is the clarinet.

:' it consists of a principal melody on the strings in the medium of the instrument, played alternately by both thumbs, while both hands are traversing with rapid arpeggios the whole range of the keyboard.

It is a highly sensitive instrument designed to acquire and record data of low-level aerodynamic acceleration along the orbiter's principal axes in the free-molecular flow regime at orbital altitudes and in the transition regime during re-entry.

The principal purpose of the evaluation process is to measure whether the program has an effect on the social problem it seeks to redress ; hence, the measurement instrument must be sensitive enough to discern these potential changes ( Rossi et al., 2004 ).

In the early sixties, when PEs were designed as the principal instrument to serve the social and economic objectives of development, Khera felt a need for an institute which would collect information on PEs, study issues and undertake consultancy and training for PEs.

On June 1, 2010, Aon replaced troubled American insurance company AIG as the principal sponsor of the club.

In North America the principal professional organizations of endocrinologists include The Endocrine Society, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Diabetes Association, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, and the American Thyroid Association.

Foonly was a short-lived American computer company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers as well as one of hackerdom's more colorful personalities.

He was the editor and principal writer of the American magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, as well as an actor and producer ( Vampirella ).

Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions ( 1999 ) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (; born December 28, 1969 ) is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

The nomenclature of the field is not exact: the relevant subdivision of the American Anthropological Association is the Biological Anthropology Section while the principal professional organization is the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

* Quagmire family, a principal family in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Mescaline is the principal agent of the psychedelic cactus peyote, which has been used in Native American religious ceremonies for thousands of years.

) – July 4, 1826 ) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) and the third President of the United States ( 1801 – 1809 ).

Lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the principal American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, argues that the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip, whose origins are unknown.

The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign.

James Longstreet ( January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904 ) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his " Old War Horse.

Ebert is one of the principal critics featured in Gerald Peary's 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

The South Platte River ( Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe ' ) is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and is itself a major river of the American Midwest and the American Southwest / Mountain West, located in the U. S. states of Colorado and Nebraska.