vital principle
Example Sentences
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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
I know that you will feel angry and let down by the lack of consultation and by the way the proposal failed to recognise the vital principle of open competition.
From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2021
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
These may be very complex; yet, if they are only held together by a weak chemical action, they readily yield to the vital principle, and are transformed.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
