principles

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California state law defines a “law enforcement gang” as a group of officers “who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the law or fundamental principles of professional policing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Justice Neil Gorsuch recently referred to the Declaration as “our nation’s report card,” by which we assess how well we’re living up to its principles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The second generation of the Majorana chip is based on the same principles as the first but is more effective in part because the scientists replaced aluminium with lead as a superconductor.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

In short, the lower court’s ruling had gotten the legal question right, and the principles of precedent did not support changing that ruling.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Since they usually ignore the tuning, melodic forms, and other aesthetic principles of the traditions that they are borrowed from, such uses of "exotic" scales should not be considered accurate representations of those traditions.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones