principle
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Roberts saw no convincing reason why the principle should disappear when the object being viewed is a historic building rather than an animal species, river, or forest.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
The UN's refugee agency continues to underscore the humanitarian principle that any return should be "voluntary, safe and dignified".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The same principle should be applied more broadly: Trusted allies capable of protecting sensitive technology should be treated as participants in a common industrial base, rather than as foreign customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
When he was Greater Manchester mayor, Burnham indicated he was in favour of assisted dying in principle.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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China meanwhile warned in July of potential retaliation over the French law, slamming the regulation as "discriminatory" and in violation of trade principles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Those principles simply do not apply in the EPL.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
These principles are compatible with Christianity, but they aren’t exclusively Christian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“I don’t think anyone knows what Kevin Warsh’s guiding operating principles are,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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