The phrase "a set of basic principles" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to fundamental guidelines or rules that govern a particular area or subject.
Example: "The organization operates under a set of basic principles that promote transparency and accountability."
Alternatives: "a collection of fundamental rules" or "a group of core guidelines."
On the Merriam-Webster Web site, for instance, fundamentalism is partly defined as "a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles".
Much of the scepticism is born from the fact Kerry's ambitious talk of the all-encompassing "final status agreement" has, for some months now, been replaced with more modest noises about a getting the sides to endorse a set of basic principles for further talks.
International mediators had set the bar high for the presidential talks on Friday, calling for approval of a set of basic principles that would defuse the standoff over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave that sought to break away from Azerbaijan toward the end of the Soviet period.
It was here that a set of basic principles was agreed.
Aristotle also identifies a distinct group of these so-called Pythagoreans who formulated a set of basic principles known as the table of opposites.
Distributed database design requires one more step of analysis than centralized databases, but there exists a set of basic principles that can be used for everyday design decisions.
No race of hothouse plants could ever have produced and compelled the recognition of such a stalwart set of basic principles, and no such race can preserve them.
His initial target with this line of thought was Blackstone, who in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765 69) tried to systematize and reduce the long history of English common law to an elegant set of basic principles.
My new book, Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World, identifies the key battlefields and lays out a set of basic liberal principles around which we can rally, whether the threat comes from an authoritarian government, a private superpower such as Facebook, or lone internet trolls.
The PIPC agreed on a set of basic philosophical principles that guided our pandemic preparation efforts.
Russia's goal for the late-June meeting in Kazan, Russia, is to persuade the sides to agree to the set of "basic principles" negotiated more than five years ago, said Aleksandr K. Lukashevich, a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Ministry.
