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词汇 example_english_matter-of-principle
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matter of principle

collocation in English

meanings of matterand principle


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matter
noun
uk /ˈmæt.ər/ us /ˈmæt̬.ɚ/
a situation or subject that is being dealt with ...
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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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Examples of matter of principle


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Naturally the fight was not just over a matterofprinciple, but also one of professional jealousy.
As a matterofprinciple, it was the spouses who were supposed to bring forward the witnesses to their nuptials.
Talent-based taxes/subsidies have generally been dismissed as a matterofprinciple.
But as a matterofprinciple, these songs were placed in contexts where singing rather than speaking could plausibly be expected of operatic characters.
He did not as a matterofprinciple move round from one hotel to another, but demonstrated a cosmopolitan mode of dwelling.
I parted from him amicably, on a matterofprinciple.
In both cases, the explanation becomes more and more improbable as a matterofprinciple and the loss of probability outweighs the increase in likelihood.
Yet it would be mistaken to believe that deeper psychological layers are, as a matterofprinciple, inaccessible to experimental psychology.
A characteristic is morally irrelevant as a matterofprinciple and remains so irrespective of context.
Various ulama opposed the bequest as a matterofprinciple.
Anyone can ask for an audience, as a matterofprinciple, so that access is certainly more generalised and less arbitrary.
As a matterofprinciple, static scheduling techniques cannot reflect changing workload characteristics of machines which run several independent processes.
Registration reform did not involve a matterofprinciple and was relatively uncontroversial.
The judge's decision cannot, as a matterofprinciple, be the only one justified by the law, which is indeterminate.
In early modern times the transition from the preservation to the enlargement of knowledge could as a matterofprinciple be perceived only as a continual process.
She expressed scathing criticism of those who assume, as a matterofprinciple, that communal land rights are a social good and a universal demand of indigenous peoples.
As a matterofprinciple, at least, this addressed oral language.
As a matterofprinciple, environmental policy in developing countries should not, in our view, be assumed to be optimal when in fact it is not.
The latter is unacceptable where the former is not, but chiefly for political reasons, and not because historians object to cultural inscription as a matterofprinciple.
Is the inability to explain these data just a problem of the existing structural description models, or is it a matterofprinciple for this model type?
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