The phrase "adherence to the principles of" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means following or staying true to the fundamental values or beliefs of something. Example: The organization's success can be attributed to its strict adherence to the principles of transparency and accountability.
Any literary merit the book possessed, Finkel insisted in an interview, was due to strict adherence to the principles of reporting.
"This is a country whose adherence to the principles of our framers are supposed to be first and foremost," he said.
In fact, Israel's own admission as a member to the United Nations was contingent on its adherence to the principles of UNGA 194, something it proceeded to disregard once membership was granted.
His adherence to the principles of Modernism helped to identify him in the late 1960s as one of the New York Five, a group of influential East Coast architects who wholeheartedly embraced the Modernist movement.
Other countries in Europe and in South and Central America selected tricolours of their own to express their adherence to the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity as embodied in the French flag.
It requires, as well, measures to ensure adherence to the principles of supremacy of law, equality before the law, accountability to the law, fairness in the application of the law, separation of powers, participation in decision-making, legal certainty, avoidance of arbitrariness and procedural and legal transparency.
Samuel H. Bahn New York, Dec. 11, 2009 To the Editor: President Obama's Nobel lecture referred to Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., applauding their adherence to the principle of nonviolence.
Chomsky agreed, and wrote that in his opinion serious adherence to the principle of free speech meant granting it even to fascists and anti-Semites; but Faurisson was neither — he was, Chomsky suggested, bizarrely, "a relatively apolitical liberal".
The Brethren are considered one of the three historic "peace churches," along with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Mennonites, because of a continuing (but not unanimous) adherence to the principle of conscientious objection to all wars.
Her activities in the 1910's are not clear, but in 1917 she published a wordy apologia, "Reminiscences, Sermons, and Correspondence, Proving Adherence to the Principle of Christian Science as Taught by Mary Baker Eddy," which maintained that she had been unjustly accused.
Our study highlights the importance of adherence to the principle of maintaining radiation exposure "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA) [29].
