essential principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofessentialandprinciple
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essential
adjective
uk/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/us/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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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 ofessentialandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Several different types of readout have been devised more recently, but theessentialprincipleis the same.
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Both alike regard this lack of control, not as an unfortunate given, a bitter truth, but as anessentialprinciplein which their theologies are grounded.
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When thisessentialprincipleappeared to be undermined, particularly by those who enforced it, healthy detainees began to question the logic and justice of their incarceration.
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Theessentialprincipleto grasp is that it hits people on low wages more than anyone else.
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First, it must retain theessentialprincipleof democratic accountability for the making of monetary policy.
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That is theessentialprinciplefor the whole basis of future taxation of local government.
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We have not in any way retracted from that, which we regard as an absolutelyessentialprincipleof colonial policy.
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They put into the national pool of goods and services as much as they take out, which is a veryessentialprinciple.
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It has been said that it is anessentialprincipleof logic that if you start with the same premises you reach the same conclusions.
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That secures theessentialprincipleof parliamentary control.
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Theessentialprinciplein my opinion is payment per message, namely, according to user, but how to get back again to that is the difficulty.
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I think you might be able to modify it, maintaining theessentialprincipleof it.
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I propose steadily to hold to theessentialprinciplethat ought to lie behind the whole operation.
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That is an absolutelyessentialprincipleof the way in which democracy should work.
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I shall not repeat the arguments about burden of proof that we advanced earlier—theessentialprincipleis the same.
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It violates what we believe is anessentialprinciple, that public money should not be devoted to the interests of private gain.
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A secondessentialprincipleis equality of treatment for all transport and mobility providers.
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In my view, this is anessentialprinciplewhich must be observed.
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What is theessentialprincipleof a lottery?
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Elasticity must be theessentialprinciplein dealing with casual labour.
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