vital principle
Example Sentences
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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
The sanctity of bond agreements is a vital principle.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 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
It is in the spirit which animated them rather than in the works themselves that we must look for the vital principle of Lincoln’s humorous sayings.
From Why Lincoln Laughed by Conwell, Russell Herman
