Wareham was called "the principal pillar and father of the colony" by Cotton Mather.

Segovia's repertoire consisted of three principal pillars.

In the recent decades, it has become one of the principal pillars of a new branch of science that represents a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience, called cognitive neuroscience.

Bandstand immediately becomes the principal creative pillar of American Dreams, with each episode featuring recreated versions of several musical acts that originally appeared on the real Bandstand, often rendered by modern singers.

But never had the two principal pillars of Malwa rule been allowed to marry each other.

Besides the perpetual lamp, there were only four flambeaux of yellow wax, which, attached above the fonts against the principal pillars, cast a red glimmer upon the blue and black marble of the empty church.

Then Bennett and family fled to Holland during the Puritan migrations, and became "by his wealth" a principal pillar of the Ancient Church.

The Church further asserts four principal pillars: suicide, abortion, cannibalism of the already dead, and sodomy ("any sexual act not intended for procreation").

Development cooperation and aid policy, which, in the current international context, should constitute one of the principal pillars, if not the principal pillar, of a foreign and security policy, is relegated to an extremely secondary role.

But the anonymous author observes with obvious satisfaction that "the principal pillar remains standing, and several friendships are more solid than a marriage."