Sentence examples for back to first principles from inspiring English sources

"Let's go back to first principles.

The president tends to go back to first principles.

Health care brought them back to first principles.

Mr. Obama has come back to first principles.

"But we do like to go back to first principles and ask: What do I need?

There is a great turning back to first principles, with little appetite for compromise.

And he has sensibly started by going back to first principles.

I went back to first principles, tried to work out what to do.

So, yes, perhaps Murphy is right to want to go back to first principles.

Larry Lindsey, chief economic adviser in the White House, is also keen on a back-to-first-principles approach.

Hertzberg describes this effect as 'creatively naive', and recalls that Carter often asked this kind of 'back-to-first-principles question'.