principal element

基本解释

The quality of college application essays, for both home and overseas students, is used by American universities as a principal element of the scholarship decision-making process.
对于国内外的申请者而言，申请文书的质量是决定申请美国大学奖学金成功与否的关键因素。
The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, and the necessary base of her politics.
波旁家族，对法兰西来说，是它历史上一个显眼和流血的节疤，但已不是它的命运的主要成分和它的政治的必要基础；
This article analyses the principal element combined with practical work, which affected the security of computer network system, puts forward the relevant countermeasure to discuss.
本文针对影响计算机网络系统安全的主要因素，结合实际工作进行分析，并提出相应的对策进行探讨。
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There's clearly been a profound change in the nature of guerilla warfare and a principal element in that change is technological.
NPR: High-Tech Weapons Change Guerrilla Warfare
While I am a strong believer in the flywheel principal as a general practice, there are also times when radical change is in fact the critical element needed to move a company to the next level of success.
FORBES: Successful Leadership Requires The Right Order Of Operation