To find a solution to the health care problem, you have to return to first principles.
There is a great turning back to first principles, with little appetite for compromise.
It argues that the setting of targets makes departments go back to first principles.
Here, political pragmatism often goes by the board as every idea gets tested against philosophic first principles.
"Sure, well, I believe in first principles, " Mark said to me, cautiously, when I probed him about his beliefs.
Perhaps leadership in a complex world ought to start from simple first principles.
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America can once again prosper if we put our trust in first principles and let the free markets work.
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There is an urgent need for patent offices to return to first principles.
By taking a good hard look at itself and going back to first principles, "Skyfall" pulls off something quite special.
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The prime minister urges us today to go back to first principles in thinking about what the welfare state is for.
As Petraeus knows, one of the first principles of counter-insurgency doctrine is that any successful campaign must have a credible local partner.
Sargent, in particular, was concerned with the internal consistency of economic models: the results had to follow, with unbroken logic, from first principles.
Given Scotland's current spending lead, that review is unlikely, from first principles, to be advantageous to those of us north of the border.
Because of the complexity of the regulations and of America's banking markets, it is hard to tell from first principles whether it will or not.
But we could see that Sunil was running an efficient operation on solid first principles, which would play out very well when the market turned.
First, they subject the facts and the law to as much scrutiny as any idea can bear before it disintegrates into the dust of first principles.
For Chacon, the key to the future of the workspace is going back to very first principles, asking questions, trying things out, and going from there.
In thinking about the size and scope of government, one must begin with first principles and delineate the legitimate functions of government in a free society.
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Law Day is a chance to reaffirm the critical role our courts have always played in addressing those wrongs and aligning our Nation with its first principles.
Something got lost in the transition after 1913, as the Fed started to pile on ersatz first principles of monetary policy, such as the laugh lines above.
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It is time, they say, to return to first principles, repeating the exercise Mr Ravallion performed almost two decades ago, using the better, more abundant data available now.
But then if the idea of the Euro had been destruction-tested, American-style, against political first principles, Europe's leaders might not be in need of a lecture from the president.
We went back to first principles, to our values, our real values, those that are timeless, and separated them from doctrine and dogma that had been ravaged by time.
For some who understand the biophysics of RF and EMF, going back to first principles provides a reality check on a possible threat from this low energy form of radiation.
"The minute you hear a rumor, just get rid of any risk and substantiate it later, " said Doug Dachille, chief executive of First Principles Capital Management LLC in New York.
The point is, the Corvette, the much-beloved, often-mocked all-American sports car, is cool again, and it has become cool by standing on first principles and having the world come around to it.
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But this is a case that needs to be made and remade from first principles in every political generation, not just by consulting a text put on paper in a bygone age.
This model is unique, says Dr Reisner, in its ability to predict from first principles the rate at which a fire spreads, rather than relying on empirical rules of thumb devised from observation.
One of the presidential candidates from last fall, Herman Cain, was shrewd enough to cut through the rationalizations and spell out, anew, what first principles for monetary policy should look like in the 21st century.
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The power of the Brussels consensus means that the convention on the future of Europe, whose duty it is to rethink the European Union from first principles, is in fact conducting its debate within tight intellectual boundaries.
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