basic principles
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She told Radio 5 Live: "In my personal opinion, they breached every aspect of the basic principles of policing."
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
"The original discovery of the Veneziano spectrum, and John Schwarz's work, took a similar approach. They didn't start with string theory models but rather the solutions came out of basic principles."
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Per the World Health Organization, a healthy diet is made up of four basic principles: adequacy, balance, moderation and diversity.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
“I think folks are catching on that it is time to go back to diversification and basic principles of investing,” he says.
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
“They told me all I had to do was prove I mastered the basic principles of sympathy.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
