principal value

Example Sentences

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Its principal value to her is that it offers long, meditative, physically demanding hours in which she can try to put some psychic distance between the woman she was and the “husbandless, daughterless” woman she has become.

From The Wall Street Journal

Semiannual interest is added to the principal value of the bond, compounding over the life of the bond.

From Barron's

The principal value that Garland and the Justice Department are concerned with is the rule of law.

From Slate

If you continue paying the same amount that you did before the refinance, that additional amount will go toward the principal value of the loan.

From Washington Post

“Since then, Mr. Reich’s promise that the baby boomers would rework society into three stages of Consciousness has been revealed as so wacky that its principal value now is as a sort of joke.”

From Washington Post