vital principle
Example Sentences
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This vital principle is eroding but can be restored by ordinary statutory construction rather than by all-or-nothing constitutional rulings.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2025
The federal civil rights remedy was never a complete solution, but it stood for a vital principle about women’s equal rights.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018
The document will be lauded for establishing one vital principle.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2014
It may achieve its specific ends, but in taking down its enemy, it will leave a vital principle floundering in its wake.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013
Ob′ject-less′on, a lesson in which the object to be described, or a representation of it, is shown; Ob′ject-soul, a vital principle attributed by the primitive mind to inanimate objects.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
