founding principle

collocation in English

meaningsoffoundandprinciple

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found
verb
uk
/faʊnd/us
/faʊnd/
past simple and past participle ...
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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 offoundandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffounding principle

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Such transfer of family wealth is likely to help widen social stratification rather than working as a redistribution mechanism which is afoundingprincipleof the welfare state.
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It was based on one solidfoundingprinciple: that healthcare should be given on the basis of a person's need not his wealth.
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Parliamentary sovereignty is thefoundingprincipleof our constitutional arrangements.
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We will not waver from thefoundingprincipleof the national health service.
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It is an unfortunate fact that altruism by employers towards their employees has not to date been afoundingprincipleof our civilisation.
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That is a scandal that would undermine thefoundingprincipleof the national health service.
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And the free movement of ideas is afoundingprincipleof our civilisation’.
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It was based on one solidfoundingprinciple: health care should be given on the basis of people's needs, not their wealth.
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I refer to thefoundingprincipleof the national health service.
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He argued the case for a modern health service based on itsfoundingprinciple: to provide care on the basis of clinical need.
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We are utterly committed to thatfoundingprinciple—that care should be available to patients on the basis of need, not on the basis of ability to pay.
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Our task is instead to provide both the money and the reform to make the health service and itsfoundingprinciplelive on and prosper in the 21st century.
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It is about returning to the historicfoundingprincipleof the national health service: top-quality medical care, accessible to all, based on need and never based on ability to pay.
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Fifthly, and in many ways most importantly, we must maintain the originalfoundingprinciplethat an attack on one member of the alliance is an attack on all.
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The company has also changed itsfoundingprincipleof being advertising free.
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Itsfoundingprincipleis that spacetime is fundamentally discrete and that the spacetime events are related by a partial order.
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The latter is the integral part of thefoundingprincipleof this scholarship, that of helping the poor and the disadvantaged.
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It is afoundingprincipleof various forms of democracy.
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Furthermore, it is thefoundingprincipleupon which the understanding and corrective measures for spatial autocorrelation have been based upon.
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Subsidiarity is afoundingprincipleof the union.
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