Nothing is better documented in the world economy than the principle that the economic system of a nation is the primary determinant of its success.
Shanghai has made way for London and the Tennis Masters Cup has been rebranded the ATP World Tour Finals, but the principle remains the same - the best eight players in the world battling to end the year as the world champion.
In the later world inflation will erode the principle balance in half each decade.
Since the world is not perfect, while the principle remains intact, there are a few accounting glitches along the way that muddy the waters a bit.
My last conversation with Adrian Bejan ended on the notion that if design in nature is a universal principle of the material world, then freedom is the key variable that determines how efficiently designs can evolve over time.
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Convinced that education plays a key role in reducing conflict, prejudice, poverty and intolerance around the world, his work is based on the guiding principle of providing access for all young people to better schooling.
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We can only hope that central bankers in the developed world assent to that principle very soon.
More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organising principle of world civilisation.
If he wasn't what the modern world wanted -- if he wasn't prepared to bend every principle or rule to appease all the people all the time -- then that's the world's problem rather than his.
Underlying the report's vision for the development banks such as the World Bank is a similarly attractive principle.
Local Motors claims that its Rally Fighter is the first vehicle in the world to be created following this principle.
"I don't think the practical side has been really thought through ... the devil is in the detail, not in the principle, " he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.
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In a world of information parity, the new guiding principle is caveat venditor seller beware.
Exotic car makers around the world are, if not imitating the Corvette's construction method, duplicating it in principle.
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Extending that principle to the rest of the world of policy favors Romney, insofar as Americans are wearying of the historic.
That proactive principle should be spread throughout the world.
In principle, high inflows of private capital from the rich world to the poor could make up for any slowdown in rich-country demand.
Engineered geothermal systems (EGS) are based on a related principle, but they work even in parts of the world that are not volcanically active, by drilling thousands of metres underground to mimic the design of natural steam or hot-water reservoirs.
Many, such as Fidelity, the world's largest retail-fund firm, rule them out on principle.
Supporting democracy and human rights is a fundamental principle behind the President's policy in the region and the world, and he will carry that message on this trip.
Boris Yeltsin and I agreed in principle on this same reduction, and there was no way in the wide world he could get it through the Russian Duma that existed at the time in his second term.
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But by his persistence Joyce established a principle, which is that the artist must have absolute freedom to work with the world he or she has stumbled across, the world as it is.
This principle has gained fame (and an equal measure of notoriety) in the last few years and is now a guiding principle in environmental policy and decision making with the United Nations and many countries around the world.
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Shipman, former principle with State Street Global Advisors, perhaps the largest private pension investment management firm in the world.
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"The executive ... confirmed that, as a matter of principle, only one association will be entitled to host a Fifa World Cup, " the global body said in a statement.
In principle, it suffices to have the financial means and the sophisticated technology needed to explore a world that in parts lies as far as 11 km beneath the ocean surface.
For that, the autarky enshrined in the North's guiding principle of Juche, or self-reliance, needs to make way for engagement with the outside world.
UN, in principle, retains the right to impose its will by force may have made it easier for the world body to broker a settlement.
It has sought to become influential in the region by supporting the principle of integrating Latin American countries into an autonomous group, independent of the United States or any world power.
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He showed, by joining the breakaway World Darts Council and appearing on video attempting star-jumps with leotarded lovelies, that he approved in principle of a sleeker, soberer version of the sport.
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