egalitarian principle

collocation in English

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egalitarian
adjective
uk
/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us
/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈter.i.ən/
believing that all people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities ...
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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 ofegalitarianandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Having probably already had a lifetime of health, under theegalitarianprinciple, they would tend to move down the priority list.
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This entails anegalitarianprinciple, an anti-discrimination principle, which prohibits any weighting of the pleasures or pains according to features of those who experience them.
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Is it because you must have a generalegalitarianprinciplerunning through the country?
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It is concerned with dispersal of available funds on anegalitarianprinciple.
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It can do no good whatever to deprive a few children of the very best education which they can receive in the name of someegalitarianprinciple.
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Vestry government, for example, was founded on egalitarian principles, since 'in the church vestry all were equal and had an equal say'.
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They aim at clear, explicit formulations of egalitarian principles.
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I appreciate the sincerity of those people who think that such a suggestion is divisive and against their egalitarian principles.
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We want them to develop, but within egalitarian principles.
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Surely his egalitarian principles should apply to that as well.
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We believe in a casteless society and in egalitarian principles.
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He upheld egalitarian principles of common property within the community.
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Another branch of this research explores how the bottom-up egalitarian principles found in many indigenous cultures could be applied to modern society in fields from economics to political science.
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