Because some obscure elemental principle prevented the flood do you deem me helpless?

They are a utility like gas, and they conform to the elemental principles of accountancy.

Uniquely, the company achieves these goals while operating under an elemental principle, unprecedented in the music world: All ECR artists and labels own 100% of their master recordings.

"But neither the Government nor the people are prepared to vindicate state terrorism," he said, "because to do so would go against the elemental principles that give legitimacy to a democratic government."

It is an elemental principle of law that judges must not have, or even appear to have, an interest in the cases before them.

Sometimes Mr. Bladen worked with elemental principles, such as opposing or crossed planes, to dramatic effect.

That is the elemental principle.

It is in no way a question of interfering with the European arms industry, which would not fall within our competence, but it is a question of setting the bases, the elemental principles, of a European arms policy.

The Mexican government said last night that it "deeply regrets the decision, which is contrary to international law and the elemental principles of cooperation between nations."