basic principle


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Noun1.basic principle - principles from which other truths can be derivedbasic principle - principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"
principle - a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy"
ABC, ABCs, ABC's, first principle, first rudiment, rudiment, alphabet - the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"
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(4) It largely abandoned the Anglo-Saxon regard for quantity and (5) it retained alliteration not as a basic principle but as an (extremely useful) subordinate device.
But there will seldom be any serious trouble when once its basic principles are understood.
Summary: New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's slogan -- 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas' -- is the basic principle on which the nation will move forward.
As far as the basic principle of static efficiency is concerned, an economically optimal allocation of resources is required so as electricity consumers pay the price of the cost, they burden the electricity system with, based on the principle of cost orientation.
'As much as you want to carry out your duty with the power that is with you, you also have to preserve this very basic principle.
Here we have the most basic principle of identity politics: A person's character, attitude, and every decisive thought are determined by his "kind."
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (KUNA) -- Kuwait First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer co-chaired a panel on the importance of humanity as basic principle of humanitarian action.
During her speech she said that rebalancing power and wealth means a "basic principle of parity".
This is a great challenge not only for Georgia, but the basic principle of the modern international law.
"The most basic principle of American jurisprudence is that we are all innocent until proven guilty.
The campaign for a North Wales Prison has been long fought and the basic principle of ensuring a modern prison in the region for those who are currently held elsewhere well established.

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