Example sentences of "based on [adj] principles " in BNC.

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1 Commercial valuations , albeit based on established principles , necessarily involve an element of negotiation .
2 Commercial valuations , although based on established principles , necessarily involve an element of negotiation .
3 This practice should be based on proven principles , acceptable to all , and not on routine and ritual .
4 Above all , the new positivists portrayed the existing penal process based on such principles as having failed to provide for the proper defence of society against crime — partly through prescientific wrongheadedness , and partly through a misplaced concern with the rights of offenders ( Ferri , 1967 ) .
5 It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles .
6 Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu .
7 Other methods of dating based on similar principles of measuring the balance between decaying and stable isotopes are being developed , arid these may well become as important as radiocarbon dating .
8 Naturopathy is one of the oldest forms of medicine and is based on four principles : the individuality of the patient , that you should treat the cause of the condition and not just the symptoms , that the body retains the ability to heal itself and that you must treat the whole person and not just an affected area .
9 ‘ It is one of our priorities to adjust the work of the Interior Ministry to the new social conditions and turn this ministry into a component of state administration based on democratic principles
10 Given that countries are struggling to develop a rational system for formulating health policy , based on democratic principles and the principles of public health found in the WHO 's ‘ Health for All ’ documents , might not the WHO assist by formulating recommendations on health policy with these same principles ?
11 Such a strategy should be based on 5 principles : a positive diagnosis , consideration of the patient 's agenda , critical appraisal of drugs and placebos , continuing care , and a graded therapeutic response .
12 Should regulation , based on international principles , supersede political intervention in the name of the national interest ?
13 The approach of the county council is based on certain principles , first of all it reflects the decision of the Secretary of State on the originally approved structure plan and particularly on the first alteration to the structure plans er in nineteen er eighty seven .
14 But Mr Van den Broek 's concerns are based on deep-rooted principles that stretch back 30 years .
15 All Macintosh software is based on easy-to-use principles , so it wo n't take long to learn .
16 Furthermore , those rules are based on general principles which apply to all armed conflicts and means of warfare .
17 Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ .
18 The Origin shows that the position of women and the family , as it existed in Engels 's time , not an unchallengeable datum , based on eternal principles , but the temporary product of the period , a product which will and must be overthrown .
19 Indeed , it goes beyond that , so far as is necessary to promote a written constitution based on federal principles .
20 It calls instead for a negotiated settlement based on two principles .
21 This approach , known as ‘ the new approach ’ , is based on two principles :
22 Designs based on these principles are known as linear voltage regulators to distinguish them from the kind of regulator we are going to investigate in this article .
23 It recognized that " pluralistic democracy and the rule of law are essential for ensuring respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms " and that the development of societies based on these principles was a prerequisite for progress in setting up a lasting order of peace , security , justice , and co-operation in Europe .
24 … we want to create a socialist society which is based on three principles : equality and respect for human dignity ; sharing resources which are produced by our efforts ; work by everyone . ’
25 Like its European counterparts , the California Greens are to eschew leadership , to be based on feminist principles and to promote universal health care .
26 Despite removing the most obvious criticism of Davis and Moore 's theory , Young questions the proposition that a stratification system based on meritocratic principles would be functional for society .
27 It suggests that a society based on meritocratic principles may not be well integrated .
28 First , they were necessarily related to the existing structure — they could not predict the performance of a new structure based on different principles .
29 Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles .
30 Assurance against death began in the late seventeenth century ; properly funded schemes based on actuarial principles were available from 1762 ( Ogborn 1962 ) , a product of the advance of science and of financial services .
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