fundamental principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffundamentalandprinciple
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fundamental
adjective
uk/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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principle
noun
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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(Definition offundamentalandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The prevalent view was that the concept of the equality of states as afundamentalprincipleof modern international law should be superseded.
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Some of these steps do not share the immediate intuitive appeal of thefundamentalprinciple.
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Cost-benefit analysis is built on a very soundfundamentalprinciple: advantages should be weighed against disadvantages, costs against benefits.
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The secondfundamentalprincipleis analogy, the comparison of archaeological data with ethnographic and historical data to interpret and expand on it.
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Afundamentalprinciplein developing multi-agent systems is to separate different concerns: individual agents, the organizational structure that coordinates their activities, and their external environment.
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It would also be both symbolically and operationally significant, establishing thefundamentalprinciple that child support is first and foremost about children's rights and entitlements.
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Further, the inverse dynamic problem is solved using an approach based on thefundamentalprincipleof virtual work.
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Either way the "fundamentalprincipleof modern bioethical thought" is unhelpful.
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He would have accepted that, if he differed with his sovereign, their differences would concern details, notfundamentalprinciple.
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This is thefundamentalprinciplein every spelling system.
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This view may be regarded as afundamentalprincipleof biomimetic robotics.
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The otherfundamentalprincipleof coupling was called reciprocity and multiplicity of synaptic connections.
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Furthermore, the book reinforces thefundamentalprinciplein music education of the sound coming before the symbol.
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His scheme shows how this knowledge, these deductions from research, serve as thefundamentalprincipleof the architectural structure.
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Myfundamentalprincipleis that we need both, in a linguistically healthy world.
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Meaningful access and health literacy share afundamentalprinciple: people have the right to the technology tools and information they need to achieve their goals.
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I would have liked to see a clear statement that matching per se cannot be thefundamentalprinciple.
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Several were motivated by both thefundamentalprincipleof beneficence and their own interest in avoiding legal liability.
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Why then should one say that optimization theory is thefundamentalprinciple?
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These teachers should take comfort from bearing in mind thisfundamentalprinciple.
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