Sentence examples for drop principle from inspiring English sources

It's called the "one drop" principle, in which one drop of black blood defined you as black.

G. Riley Mills is the co-founder of Pinnacle Performance Company and co-author of the acclaimed book The Pin Drop Principle.

A schematic image of the hanging drop principle is seen in Figure 1.

While Salafis initially wanted to drop "principles of" from that clause, a spokesman for the largest Salafi party said they had settled for an additional clause that elaborated on what the principles were, language that some believe would make the law more rigid.

The position of the text can be adjusted by 'drag-and-drop' principle.

His aides point out that in an enlarged EU of 25 countries, the seven smallest ones representing a paltry 1.5% of the EU's GDP will have more voting weight in the European Commission than the six largest countries with 82% of the Union's GDP.Mr Giscard d'Estaing proposes to drop the principle that every country has a right to a European commissioner with a vote.

"It is well within the power of the EU and the US to make this happen... They should insist on an immediate end to Gaza's suffering". But there is no sign that the quartet - the US, Russia, the EU and the UN - will drop the principle of boycotting Hamas while Israeli officials and some western diplomats blame the group for attacking the Gaza crossing points and not distributing available fuel.

Last year the European Union dropped the principle of "free and undistorted competition" from its Lisbon treaty.All the more reason, then, to welcome a study* by two eminent trade economists, Kym Anderson of the University of Adelaide and Alan Winters of the University of Sussex.

While intuitionistic logic is obtained from classical logic by dropping the principle of the excluded third, other logics have also been proposed, though none has had a comparable impact on the foundations of mathematics.

At a June summit in Brussels European leaders bent to the wishes of France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and dropped the principle of free and undistorted competition from the treaty that, if ratified, will replace the EU constitution sacked by French and Dutch voters in 2005.

This was not the only case in which the administration dropped its principles when the subject turned to oil.