"But the anticorruption commission must seek to uphold the principles laid down by the Constitution".
All honour the vague principles laid down by Koyata Iwasaki, the final president of the old Mitsubishi zaibatsu.
He bought the paper in 1907, pledging to uphold the principles laid down by its founder John Edward Taylor.
He finally visits and interviews Jayaprakash Narayan, an early adherent to the land-reform principles laid down by Gandhi & his follower, Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
The principles laid down in that essay, which first brought him to public attention, formed the basis of his subsequent career.
Regional laws, however, must respect general principles laid down in national statutes, and in practice little room is left for genuinely autonomous regional legislation.
The "normal human principles" evoked by the Manchu emperor in his diatribe against rebellious renegades were, of course, Chinese principles, laid down in Confucian dogma.
They used the label to defend themselves against accusations by orthodox Muslims that Sufis deviated from Islamic laws and principles laid down in the Qurʾān (Islamic scripture) and Ḥadīth (sayings of Muhammad).
To date Hamas refuses to sign up to the principles laid down by the Quartet (the EU, the UN, the US and Russia): namely the need for non-violence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations.
Abbas has already pledged that the new administration will abide by the principles laid down by the Middle East peace quartet in that it will recognise Israel, reject violence and abide by existing agreements.
Time's Fareed Zakaria, who has a consultant credit on one of the outlet's documentary series, claims that Vice is simply following the editorial principles laid down by Geoffrey Crowther, former editor of The Economist: namely, simplify, then exaggerate.
