| 单词 | principle |
| 释义 | principle (prɪnsɪpəl ) Word forms: principles 1. variable noun [usually poss NOUN, adjective NOUN] A principle is a general belief that you have about the way you should behave, which influences your behaviour. Buck never allowed himself to be bullied into doing anything that went against his principles. ...moral principles. It's not just a matter of principle. ...a man of principle. 2. countable noun [adjective NOUN] The principles of a particular theory or philosophy are its basic rules or laws. ...a violation of the basic principles of Marxism. [+ of] The doctrine was based on three fundamental principles. Synonyms: belief, rule, standard, attitude 3. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN] Scientific principles are general scientific laws which explain how something happens or works. These people lack all understanding of scientific principles. [+ of] ...the principles of quantum theory. Synonyms: rule, idea, law, theory 4. in principle phrase If you agree with something in principle, you agree in general terms to the idea of it, although you do not yet know the details or know if it will be possible. I agree with it in principle but I doubt if it will happen in practice. Synonyms: in general, generally, all things considered, on the whole 5. in principle phrase If something is possible in principle, there is no known reason why it should not happen, even though it has not happened before. Even assuming this to be in principle possible, it will not be achieved soon. 6. on principle phrase If you refuse to do something on principle, you refuse to do it because of a particular belief that you have. He would vote against it on principle. His father, on principle, did not like to hear requests for money. Quotations: It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediencyThe Circle Collocations: a principle applies Basic principles of dieting apply here rather than a specialised diet. Times, Sunday Times (2009) How this principle applies in our lives may differ with different people in different situations. Christianity Today (2000) The same principle applies to a more recent period. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Two new cancer therapies apply bioelectric principles. Cancers (2010) Can the same principle be applied to your personal life? The Sun (2019) We are now keen to apply the principle of student involvement in other areas. Times, Sunday Times (2008) One very basic principle that can be applied to anything in life is that you have to balance your budget. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He does not seek to remodel their style but merely reinforce the basic principles that have made them successful. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It defies the basic principle of democracy. Times, Sunday Times (2014) What are the biblical principles that support Christian marriage? Christianity Today (2000) Christians were to order every part of their lives according to biblical principles. Christianity Today (2000) We teach biblical principles on giving in the membership classes and small groups. Christianity Today (2000) So, follow that principle and you won't go far wrong. Times, Sunday Times We cannot continue to follow the principle 'consume now and pay later'. Times, Sunday Times He also encourages his friends to follow his principle of life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those who choose to follow this principle will not casually accept the authority of existing institutions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To determine citizenship, the nations in these areas of the world follow the principle of jus sanguinis rather than jus soli. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It still remains the most fundamental principle of a criminal trial that an accused is innocent until proven guilty. Times, Sunday Times (2015) This means going back to fundamental principles. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Attention to the fundamental principles of learning is essential. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions Politicians would then be forced to choose between changing the guiding principles and changing their policies. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Did his parents instil any guiding principles to help him when he became a parent himself? Times, Sunday Times (2011) Letting her make her own choices has always been my guiding principle. Times, Sunday Times (2006) She is especially interested in his view that ' conscientious people of high moral principle may be on the side of evil.' The Times Literary Supplement (2014) We experience shame when we break a taboo or moral principle. Know Your Own Mind (1991) They believe that moral principle is the most important ethical perspective. Times, Sunday Times (2008) His office said he 'deplores the attacks on the principle of respect for privacy, to which he, like every citizen, has a right'. Times, Sunday Times He thinks the judgment departed from the principle of respecting historical facts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The report used the principles of respect for human life and dignity as its reason for recommending that various activities associated with genetic research and human reproduction be prohibited. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, he explores, through self-evaluation, complex principles of respect for all individuals and for their rights that all religions or moral authorities would view as moral. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It establishes the principle of separation of powers as relating to the judiciary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The federal government adopts the principle of separation of powers and has three branches: executive, legislature and judiciary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It implements a principle of separation of configuration from the scripts that do the setting up. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All other states and the federal government maintain court rules separately from executive regulations in order to maintain the principle of separation of powers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He dissented solely on the ground that the law was a clear violation of the constitutional principle of separation of powers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All the great powers of the modern world rule on the principle of sovereignty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He declined to express any forced pronouncement on this subject, and his enforced silence concealed the secret design of safeguarding the principle of sovereignty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This would ensure that conciliation efforts would be able to address a broad range of disputes, while maintaining principles of sovereignty by not forcing parties to accept the decisions reached. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It consists of students who ought to serve the student body by promoting the common good in the principle of subsidiarity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The doctrine coincides with federalism, states' rights, the principle of subsidiarity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To prevent large private organizations from thus dominating the body politic, distributism applies this principle of subsidiarity to economic as well as to social and political action. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 According to the principle of subsidiarity, actions ought to be taken at the lowest level of government possible, so as to maximise democratic accountability and responsiveness to people's needs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The citizens choice has been acknowledged and advocated by government institutions in order to promote reforms that support the mutual help principle and the principle of subsidiarity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such schemes reflect the principle which should be at the heart of solving our difficulties with mass tourism. Times, Sunday Times She persists in advocating for a set of values that reflect the principles of human rights today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it had been vindicated here in a case of 'true exceptionality'; yet the court should also 'reflect the principles of justice and mercy'. Times, Sunday Times The cheese industry has itself long reflected that principle. Times, Sunday Times The pari passu rule reflected the principle that statutory provisions for pro rata distribution could not be excluded by a contract which gave one creditor more than its proper share. Times, Sunday Times What happens when people put aside their own moral feelings or moral responsibilities in order to pursue what they believe to be a religious principle. Times, Sunday Times The orthodox explanation had been based on the religious principle of accommodation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They may also settle domestic and financial disputes according to religious principles. The Sun These films, shown mostly in the seminaries and institutes of religion, teach religious principles, church history, and general kindness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They lost 4-2 but didn't sacrifice their principles. Times, Sunday Times Does this goal sacrifice any principles or people on the altar of exigency? Christianity Today In doing so, however, they may have to sacrifice the principles that originally got them ordained into the monetary priesthood. Times, Sunday Times But none of the recently launched funds has had time to establish a track record to show whether the climate change theme can boost investors' profits without sacrificing their principles. Times, Sunday Times Most importantly, though, we are considering sacrificing a principle that should be sacred and enduring in a free society in order to assuage a passing anger. Times, Sunday Times As a general scientific principle, the most reliable data comes from actual observation and the most reliable theories depend on it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each episode ends with a short animated sequence illustrating a key scientific principle demonstrated in the preceding live action story. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No patent shall be granted for any mere scientific principle or abstract theorem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sentences should be apportioned on a scientific principle, the amount to depend rather on the antecedents of the prisoner than on the heinousness of the particular crime. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She found that it helped when she treated everyday life as a set of data to be collected, applying scientific principles to everyday occurrences. Times,Sunday Times We need to instil discipline, education and the simple principle of good behaviour. The Sun The companies work on a simple principle: many digital tasks require some form of human input and can't be completed by computers alone. Times, Sunday Times He works on the simple principle that if you like people, they might like you in return. Times, Sunday Times We still have not learned the simple principle of living next door to someone who may be different from us. Christianity Today Never has such a simple principle - of ferrying food from the ground to your mouth - been more convoluted. Times, Sunday Times The whole system is based on sound logical principles. M.E. and You - a self-help plan (1988) It is a sound principle that one person in an organization should have only one ' master'. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001) Whether or not that is true for every individual is a matter of debate, but the principle is sound . Christianity Today (2000) It's run on sustainable principles and offers guided cycle rides and forest hikes, as well as diving, snorkelling and yoga. Times,Sunday Times For the past 25 years, the gardens and surrounding land have been managed to the organic and sustainable principles that he has for so long championed. Times, Sunday Times The transport strategy also incorporates sustainable principles with cycle lanes and public transport included in the masterplan. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sustainable principles underpin the design of the park, and features include low maintenance plants; solar panels and wind turbines; reconstituted materials for walkways and rainwater harvesting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Applying sustainable principles to land use and growth management requires that growth be redirected from scattered fringe areas back to our urban cores, where people, services and infrastructure already exist. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The watchdog said that allowing the government to campaign freely on one side would 'undermine the principle of having spending limits'. Times, Sunday Times His proposed two-tier contract will impinge access to justice and fundamentally undermine the principle of equality before the law. Times, Sunday Times They also say that they undermine the principle of equality. Times, Sunday Times One should be careful not to be persuaded by police shortcomings in individual cases to undermine that principle. Times, Sunday Times An approach which depended on evidence of the actual subjective understanding of tenderers would undermine the principle of legal certainty. Times, Sunday Times The broad unifying principle was reasonableness between neighbours. Times,Sunday Times Enumerative bibliographies are based on a unifying principle such as creator, subject, date, topic or other characteristic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Whenever this happens, mathematical theory behind the equations can be viewed as a unifying principle behind diverse phenomena. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The absence of any unifying principle drawing together the different heads of economic tort liability has often been remarked upon. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But this should not be accepted as a matter of universal principle. ST His premise, first articulated in a medical journal in 1972, that all injuries are the result of faulty dance technique, has become a universal principle. Times, Sunday Times It breaks the universal principle. Times, Sunday Times Lyric works on the universal principle of repetition and variation. Times, Sunday Times It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the passions) so that the universal principle of reason prevails to determine one's action. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But it's important to uphold the principle that meanings of words are conventions rather than immutable truths. Times, Sunday Times Until that changes we can only wish strength to the arms of those in the republic's institutions and civil society who continue to uphold the principle of liberal democracy. Times, Sunday Times I'll always uphold that principle. Times,Sunday Times The press has a duty to uphold the principle of open justice and act as the eyes and ears of the public in the courts. Times, Sunday Times We must uphold the principle of only having carried out orders... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 How to impose so great a restriction on individual liberty without violating democratic principles remains an unsolved dilemma. Cultural Anthropology (1995) Such amendments could violate the principle of transparency and of equality of treatment. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Littering violates every principle of community living. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Translations: Chinese: 原则 Japanese: 主義 |
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