revolutionary principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrevolutionaryandprinciple
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revolutionary
adjective
uk/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
involved in or relating to ...
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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 ofrevolutionaryandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It cannot be a veryrevolutionaryprinciplethat somebody should be allowed to speak his own language in his own country.
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What is the vastrevolutionaryprincipleof that?
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That, too, is a quiterevolutionaryprinciplein policing.
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It is a far morerevolutionaryprinciplethan anything that has been suggested in this country during the last sixty or seventy years at least.
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They hope to be able to introduce into the social services in war-time arevolutionaryprinciplewhich would have been repugnant in peace-time.
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Proper analysis of the text before us will reveal a major principle, which is also this report'srevolutionaryprinciple.
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It is a mostrevolutionaryprincipleand doctrine.
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That is a quiterevolutionaryprinciplein policing terms.
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Some of them are unpredictable in their future possibilities but many of them require an entirelyrevolutionaryprincipleif we are to survive the threats of this nuclear age.
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It was because we were nervous about the cost, and wanted particularly to help the development districts, that we introduced thisrevolutionaryprinciplesimply for those districts.
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It would not involve establishing some quite new andrevolutionaryprinciplenow to give the discrimination that is given in the case of mining works also to fuel saving equipment.
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It involves no newrevolutionaryprinciple.
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This is a very remarkable way in which to introduce arevolutionaryprincipleinto legislation, though far be it from me to object to the proposal on other grounds.
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That is a veryrevolutionaryprinciple.
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It also establishes the fundamental butrevolutionaryprinciplethat the archives of the nation are to be made accessible to the citizens.
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Despite these assumptions, the deputies resisted the temptation to use dress to foster revolutionary principles.
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I am not always loath to accept revolutionary principles.
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In order to do that, he has had to base his policy more and more on revolutionary principles.
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He was a moderate supporter of the revolutionary principles.
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