basic principles
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For investors, this is a reminder of two basic principles: You can’t judge a fund by its name alone, and diverging even slightly from the broadest exposure to stocks can give you startlingly different results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
She told Radio 5 Live: "In my personal opinion, they breached every aspect of the basic principles of policing."
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
"The original discovery of the Veneziano spectrum, and John Schwarz's work, took a similar approach. They didn't start with string theory models but rather the solutions came out of basic principles."
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Per the World Health Organization, a healthy diet is made up of four basic principles: adequacy, balance, moderation and diversity.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
