Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing.

It was the great modern test of the long-established and fundamental principle that the First Amendment disfavors prior restraints on publication.

Speaking as a lawyer, it's a long-established principle that successive governments take on responsibility for previous agreements.

It was a long-established principle that teaching moves from the known, to the unknown.

That would erode the long-established legal principle that America's armed forces should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.

Both parties accepted the long-established principle that a company could not forgo its right to alter its articles of association.

I doubt whether we need to draw up two whole reports only to remind ourselves of this rather self-evident and long-established principle.

In addition, they say, it constitutes an assault on the long-established principle that society needs a mechanism to give the hopelessly indebted a fresh start.

Ignoring long-established economic principles and empirical data to the contrary, they consider global trade a zero-sum competition among countries and a significant threat to American workers.

Reading it, one is struck by how insensitive the Clinton Administration is to one after another long-established principle of civil liberties.