vital principle
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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
In Aristotle ψυχή is untranslatable = anima and animus—soul and vital principle.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
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