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

She told Radio 5 Live: "In my personal opinion, they breached every aspect of the basic principles of policing."

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

For these reasons, and for all my aforementioned principles about allowing people to repent for their mistakes, I don’t think Platner should drop out of the race.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Another source of income for mathematicians in Galileo’s day was teaching the geometrical principles of perspective representation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton