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With tables of the cases and principal matters.

Here too, simony and the marriage of the clergy were the principal matters dealt with.

Valladolid, in 1590, recorded that wine making was "the principal matter and business of this city and its lands."

Some of the principal matters that engaged the attention of the Council on Industry were:

"Live, that's the principal matter."

His principal matter of concern was the enforcement of U.S. neutrality with respect to the French Revolutionary Wars.

A witty, sparkling memoir despite its principal matter: two decades of encounters with psychotherapists who were, with one splendid exception, remote, inappropriately involved or just peculiar.

For the convenience of the reader, there is set out in Appendix 3 a checklist which will serve as a useful reminder of the principal matters to be considered.

Section 1 gives guidance on the form and content of auditors' annual reports and comments on the principal matters to be taken into account in framing those reports.

We will carefully go over the principal matters connected with his [Lieutnenant Governor Sir Peregrine Matiland's] administration.

Where the principal matter of a dispute is one of family law, bankruptcy or insolvency, social security, or relates to arbitration, the case is not subject to the rules.

In the discharge of his various functions, he found an opportunity of developing before a domestic audience the principal matter of asceticism, which he elaborated little by little into a complete treatise.

William Hawkins in his A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: or a system of the principal matters, relating to that subject, digested under their proper heads Vol.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and Principal Matters.

In announcing the award, Joseph Parisi, the editor of Poetry, said, "The human heart - its complexity, ambiguity, frequent anguish and marvelous ability to cope and prevail - is the principal matter of her graceful, deeply moving art."

I would like to begin by saying that I have a lot of sympathy for the amendments tabled by Mrs Hautala and Mrs Stenius-Kaukonen, but the principal matter is the joint motion for a resolution.

Now the first and principal matter which is requisite for thoroughly understanding the immortality of the soul is to form the clearest possible conception of it, and one which will be entirely distinct from all the conceptions which we may have of body; and in this Meditation this has been done.

The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis, the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action, even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement.