The phrase 'set up principles' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase when you are discussing the establishment of specific principles or rules to guide or govern a particular situation. For example: "The board of directors set up principles that all employees must follow."
Setting up principles of exegesis by which ethical lessons may be drawn from all parts of the Bible is not easy, since many of the commandments enjoined upon the Israelites in the Pentateuch no longer have any obvious relevance, such as the ban on boiling a kid in its mother's milk (Exodus 23:19b, etc).
The group has set up six principles, including informing public policy, incorporating climate change into members' investment strategies and reducing the environmental impacts of their business.
While I was working on the Facilities Master Plan, I asked that Intercollegiate Athletics set up the principles that would guide future decisions.
Since for Bacon the formal necessity of the syllogism does not suffice to set up first principles, his method comprises two basic tasks: (1) the discovery of forms, and (2) the transformation of concrete bodies.
Class‑ consciousness is anathema to them, and in contradistinction to it they set up the principle of race-consciousness".
In this article, a mathematical model for equilibrium states of the plant is set up from basic principles.
It will not make recommendations for a design, Mr. Gastil said, but "we are trying to set up the best principles".
The purpose of the present work was to set up the basic principles of successful preparation of students to their further studies in English and design an ESP course for science students aimed at helping them to integrate into the international academic community.
In the first meetings, we set up our guiding principles.
