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".
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.
"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".
Because he violated the most elementary principle of diplomacy by drawing a line in the sand, he cannot do nothing in Syria, although there is nothing he can do.
Except a meaningful grasp of the elementary principle that nobody wants to follow a scowling, sullen, self-absorbed leader.
In the same document, John Paul described the "intervention of governmental authority" on behalf of the defenceless as "an elementary principle of sound political organisation" taught by the church for a century.
