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Six example sentences with principle, each labelled with its topic.
One principle runs through the whole argument: never treat a person only as a means to something else.
Philosophy
The cleanup law rests on a simple principle, that whoever spills a substance pays the full cost of removing it.
Environment
The fund follows one principle above all: never risk on a single trade more than the desk can lose comfortably.
Finance
Archimedes' principle says a floating body pushes aside exactly its own weight in water, which is why steel ships float.
Science
A principle of common law is that nobody may be tried twice for the same offense once a jury has acquitted them.
Law
The defensive principle is simple: force the ball toward the sideline, where the boundary acts as a second defender.
Basketball
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