very principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofveryandprinciple
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very
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈver.i/us/ˈver.i/
(used to add emphasis to a noun) exact ...
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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 ofveryandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvery principle
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At the moment, though, theveryprincipleof multilateral trade negotiations is at stake.
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In this regard, theveryprincipleof extending the directive to new audiovisual media services is crucial.
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Furthermore, limiting acceptable cross-subsidy arrangements to domestic flights would contradict theveryprincipleof non-discrimination.
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Discrimination is not merely the supreme human quality; it is theveryprincipleof life itself, whether it be vegetable or animal.
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Some people argue against theveryprincipleof regional policy.
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This in turn sometimes led workers to substitute their own authority for that of the owners, to challenge theveryprincipleof authority itself.
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He thus wanted to ensure that the reputation of his vaccine and the adoption of theveryprincipleof artificial immunity were not compromised.
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Theveryprincipleof informed consent in research situations involves the unforced choice of subjects to engage in the project or to decline to engage in the project.
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If we allow that a positive quality need not be actualized for it to be included in maximal greatness, we seem to undermine theveryprincipleof the argument.
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This report has, in fact, one goal and one goal only, and that is to undermine theveryprincipleof the list of safe countries.
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I make no apology for taking up these matters, because they are surely fundamental to theveryprinciplethat is being introduced.
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There is not a trade unionist who can deny that the growth of their own movement has been fostered and founded upon thatveryprinciple.
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Indeed, theveryprincipleof a graduated contribution is a repudiation of the insurance principle.
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But the very basis, theveryprincipleof every religion throughout the world is immortality.
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Is not that theveryprincipleon which he is proceeding without knowing it?
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Yet this recognition comes in so strange a form that it seems actually to contradict rather than to affirm thatveryprinciple.
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We say, they stand convicted on their own past record and their own past arguments which have been put forward to support thisveryprinciple.
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That is theveryprincipleon which our policies are based.
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Indeed, we would trace the causes of war to the operation of thatveryprinciple.
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