principles

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Traditional equitable principles don’t require such a showing, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the Court.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

California state law defines a “law enforcement gang” as a group of officers “who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the law or fundamental principles of professional policing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The second generation of the Majorana chip is based on the same principles as the first but is more effective in part because the scientists replaced aluminium with lead as a superconductor.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

In short, the lower court’s ruling had gotten the legal question right, and the principles of precedent did not support changing that ruling.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

The incorporation of principles of the Reggio Emilia approach in a North American pre-school music curriculum: An action research.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin