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Overall, many of the principles Barr put forward are unobjectionable in general.

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Generally speaking, they do this by creating guidelines and principles for developers, funders, and regulators to follow.

You write all human languages are unified by a simple principle.

This means that, in principle, an algorithm might learn to represent the meaning of words simply from their distributions in a large amount of text.

Abouheif thinks that what is happening in carpenter ants may illustrate a broader principle involving symbioses and evolution.

But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.

Nixon said defending the two islands was “a matter of principle.”

If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.

Let the record show that espousing principles is common; acting on principle is rare.

The principle that outsiders should be welcomed and provided for was a cross-cultural theme in ancient cultures.

Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.

The grand thing is to have each of your five fingers go "dum, dum," an equal number of times, which is the principle of all three!

He had hitherto lived for universal man:—his days should terminate on a different principle.

The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.

I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.

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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to principle, such as: assumption, basis, convention, doctrine, ethic, and foundation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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