principal player
first chair
first stand

But I met with some of the principal players early in the process.

Most of the principal players are now dead though the war goes on for other reasons.

David looked about to see which of the principal players had arrived.

These women are the principal players in what is, of course, largely a man's world.

"But the principal players are looking at it as a likely failure."

The principal players are allowed the pick of the litter.

The principal players include the shareholders, management, and the board of directors.

And while all of this was going on, two principal players seemed strangely hidden.

A principal player in this production is, curiously enough, the sky.

Republicans were the principal players in most of them; a large majority involved members of Congress.

Principal players: A 30-something couple, dressed for a formal afternoon appointment.

- by citing the personalities of the two principal players.

Glen Colliver and his party were the principal players left.

But meanwhile, three of the principal players were missing.

Incidentally, I have nothing to say about the fact that the principal players in this mythology are women.

One is the need to rotate principal players, especially among the winds and the brass.

Even the principal players barely relate to one another.

Through contemporary eyes, however, the principal players here can be terribly tiresome.

Adding fuel to the speculation, clearly, are the personal dynamics among the principal players.

Davis gives long personal histories of the principal players in his history, but fails to explain the reason they are important.

Several of the orchestra's principal players are also to be featured in concertos.

But now comes the final cast of dice in this game we've played, and it's only fitting that the principal players should meet at last.

String parts are sent to the principal players, who study them and put in bowing directions.

Stogar was the director and also the principal player.

Most players exceed the base, and some, especially principal players, greatly so.