Except a meaningful grasp of the elementary principle that nobody wants to follow a scowling, sullen, self-absorbed leader.
The movement of fish, which move in schools and avoid obstacles en masse, is the elementary principle of the algorithm that the locomotion of the robots is built on.
"The Chamber's survey violates the elementary principle that evaluation of legal system performance should be based on input from both sides to disputes," noting the obvious: "asking only one side to a dispute about a system will yield biased results".
This president, who has an M.B.A. from Harvard, consistently violates the elementary principles of business common sense.
In jurisprudence Cujas specialized in Justinian; his Paratitla, or summaries of Justinian's Digest and Codex, expresses in short, clear axioms the elementary principles of Roman law.
She (or he) adds, "I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature, while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations".
The elementary principles have been modified as a result of the recent discovery that a talent for composing complicated prose early in life can stave off the onset of dementia or Alzheimer's later in life, or, at least, make it much more difficult to detect — a fact that writers can ignore no longer.
William Strunk and E. B. White, in their famous book The Elements of Style, suggest, in rule 16 (one of the "Elementary Principles of Composition") that a writer ought to always "use definite, specific, concrete, language".
Upon the development of international trade, the elementary principles of credit and banking were developed.
"The FBI trained me in the tenets of Islam, in the elementary principles of Arabic, and just to blend into the community and to slowly integrate myself as a Muslim male," he said.
One choice, always, is to follow the Hippocratic principle: 'First, do no harm.' If you can think of no way to adhere to that elementary principle, then do nothing.
