Criticisms of this are twofold: first, a long-standing principle, Shannon's Maxim, states that "the enemy knows the system" and that secrecy does not afford the user any advantages.

Thus they appeared to be in direct opposition to the long-standing American principle of the separation of church and state.

"It goes against the long-standing principle that telephone service should be as inexpensive as possible and provided to as many as possible."

He noted that a long-standing principle in ethics forbade the use of a vulnerable population merely for convenience.

This long-standing principle of "reasonableness" was also extended to the discretionary ground of recovery applicable to secure and assured tenancies.

It is a long-standing principle of United States copyright law that "information" is not copyrightable, O'Connor notes, but "collections" of information can be.

Common law is based on long-standing English legal principles, as interpreted through case law.

It's a long-standing principle of Anglo-American jurisprudence.

The latter is a long-standing principle. It can be found in the Treaties.

The European Union fully supports the long-standing principle of budgetary discipline.