first principles

He questions every assumption in order to drill down to the first principles of physics.

Still, preliminary evidence and some scientific first principles suggest that mixing vaccine technologies may give a stronger response.

Revisiting The Life You Can Save offered more than just a refresher course on Singer’s argument — it felt like rediscovering first principles.

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

He sees himself as the first Muslim president of all Europe.

This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.

And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.

Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.