PRINCIPLE in a Sentence
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187 example sentences for PRINCIPLE, such as:
1. Any principle is preferable to none.
2. They work on a principle of heat absorption.
3. He doesn't invest in the arms industry on principle.
4. Under no circumstances can we agree to such a principle.
5. He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty.
2. They work on a principle of heat absorption.
3. He doesn't invest in the arms industry on principle.
4. Under no circumstances can we agree to such a principle.
5. He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty.
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Meanings and Examples of PRINCIPLE
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principle
n. a basic truth or law or assumption
n. a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1 This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.
2 The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help.
3 It would have caused more bother than it was worth--asserting the democratic principle; standing in the crowd at the table.
4 This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children.
5 A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
6 I have always considered Bitzer a young man of the most upright principle; and to that I beg to bear my testimony.
7 It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.
8 The principle was good in itself, but it may have been, and I believe has been, carried too far in your case.
9 His unsettled affections, wavering with his vanity, Maria's decided attachment, and no sufficient principle on either side, gave it possibility: Miss Crawford's letter stampt it a fact.
10 He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice.
11 'We are all weak creeturs,' said Mrs. Corney, laying down a general principle.
12 This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be proceeding, his friends to be urging him.
13 To spare Henrietta from agitation seemed the governing principle.
14 That he was a sensible man, an agreeable man, that he talked well, professed good opinions, seemed to judge properly and as a man of principle, this was all clear enough.
15 There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1 He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty.
2 Under no circumstances can we agree to such a principle.
3 I agree with you in principle, but we'll need to discuss the details.
4 She refuses to allow her family to help her as a matter of principle.
5 She is one of those rare politicians whom one can trust not to swerve from policy and principle.
6 Further, this principle should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen paid the money under mistake of law.
7 This concept, called the accrual concept or matching principle, forms the basis for the measurement of accounting income.
8 The accepted principle was that you should not define your cause before starting the revolution.
9 The school is based on the fundamental principle that each child should develop its full potential.
10 Each side declared that it would never abandon its principle.
11 They work on a principle of heat absorption.
12 He doesn't invest in the arms industry on principle.
13 This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.
14 Political correctness is the principle of avoiding language or behaviour that may offend certain groups of people.
15 Any principle is preferable to none.