Amis recommended, among other things, a course of "hangover reading," one that "rests on the principle that you must feel worse emotionally before you start to feel better.
Feminism rested on the principle of equality.
His whole charm-driven life, loves and career rests on the principle.
A liberal trading order rests on the principle that countries do not play favourites, even if the favouritism is reciprocated.
The NHS rests on the principle that everyone pays for the healthcare of those who are unlucky enough to need it.
Beyond that, American justice rests on the principle that the only way to protect the innocent is to treat everyone equally under the law.
These geographic and cultural contrasts between the Pacific Islands, which were obvious to early European visitors, concealed a similarity: the societies all rested on the principle of reciprocity.
The medieval view of Antichrist communicated by Adso, Ripelin, and a host of other writers rested on the principle that Antichrist is the parodic opposite of Christ in all things.
This way of looking at AI rests on the principle of universal Darwinism – the idea that whenever information (a replicator) is copied, with variation and selection, a new evolutionary process begins.
Mr. McGucken's course, now taught at Pepperdine University, rests on the principle that those who create art should have the skills to own it, profit from it and protect it.
One approach, called constraint-induced movement-based therapy, rests on the principle that lots of practice can reorganize the brain, said Dr. Wolfgang Miltner, a neuroscientist at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena in Germany.
