basic principle
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Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
“It is a basic principle in this country that if you break the law, you will face a consequence for that,” Leavitt said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Elena Kagan restored the basic principle that reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment cannot be measured in a blink.
From Slate • May 15, 2025
Beijing fears this could see it being excluded from supplying US-bound goods to the UK, telling the Financial Times it was a "basic principle" that bilateral trade deals should not target other countries.
From BBC • May 14, 2025
This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
