underlying principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunderlyingandprinciple
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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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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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The resulting arrangement of care-giving may look haphazard or capricious, but theunderlyingprincipleof reciprocity is clear.
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This, of course, would have violated just about everyunderlyingprincipleof liberty and freedom that fueled the revolution.
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Theunderlyingprincipleof equifinality in biological systems is teleological in the sense that the end states of the organism are understood to be genetically precoded.
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We start by explaining theunderlyingprinciplewhich is to some extent model-independent.
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Is there someunderlyingprinciplehere?
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Roughly speaking, theunderlyingprincipleis as follows.
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Perhaps, for nurses, this is anunderlyingprinciplefor practice, unlike the medical ethics of beneficence and paternalism.
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Theunderlyingprinciplewas that a reforming, educational environment could bring out the good in youths who had gone astray.
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However, he notes that theunderlyingprincipleremains inter-governmentalism in this area and common policies all too rare.
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And itsunderlyingprinciplewas 'a rule of unanimity'.
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Anunderlyingprincipleof abstract interpretation is to approximate perfect information by 'erring on the safe side'.
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These examples illustrate theunderlyingprincipleof building observable computations over a given non-observable term.
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Tenure to ensure fearless performance of duty was standard in the case of judges, but theunderlyingprinciplewas by no means reserved to them.
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Theunderlyingprincipleof the proofs of these results can be stated in rough terms as follows.
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Theunderlyingprincipleis that politics should be based on citizen wants, and not the wants of politics made the sole aim of the citizen.
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Theunderlyingprincipleis that trade can only take place if the water can physically be transferred between the selling and buying property.
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Itsunderlyingprinciplewas that punishment must be commensurate with the seriousness of the offense.
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Competition, which is meant to stimulate productive efficiency, is theunderlyingprincipleof privatisation.
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Evidently, currencies and languages are not analogous, but theunderlyingprincipleof moving from unwieldy and costly plurality to cheap and nimble oneness is the same.
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Having vindicated theunderlyingprincipleof hard labour, the committee was now striving to bring a new institutional form of it to the centre stage.
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