The phrase "authoritative principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a guiding rule or standard that is recognized as having authority or influence.
Example: "The authoritative principle in this field dictates that all research must be peer-reviewed before publication."
Alternatives: "dominant rule" or "established guideline".
Dogma: An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
That an authoritative principle dictates that we ought to intend a good action does not depend on external factors that might prevent or mitigate the desired prudential outcome (but see McNaughton 2012).
i Dogma: An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true.
With the expansion of commerce and industry in the 16th and 17th centuries, English courts were called upon to decide many novel cases for which the rules of medieval common law provided little or no guidance, and judges felt the need for broad, authoritative principles to support their decisions.
"Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)" means official pronouncements of the FASB as memorialized in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification® as the source of authoritative principles and standards recognized to be applied in the preparation of financial statements by federally-insured credit unions in the United States with assets of $10 million or more.
By analogy, when forceful principles and passions (N2) go against authoritative principles (N3), or when the principles and passions no longer bear the same relations or are in conflict this goes against our nature and is unnatural.
"We concluded that there is an absence of concise, authoritative briefing specifically for governors, and that too much of the communication of important principles is left to the initiative of - and for translation by - others," says the report.
(FAO, 1999a). 2 Full title - Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests.
The prevailing North-South polarization concerning forests did not permit agreements beyond the text of the "Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests" (the so-called "Forest Principles") and Chapter 11 of Agenda 21 ("Combating deforestation").
Outterson, who has long promoted de-linkage, says its publication "marks a watershed event as an authoritative endorsement of the principle".
Together, these topics comprise an authoritative introduction to the principles of the technique.
