Although unlikely to have any effect if it did happen, the principle is cause for concern.

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Now, however, literary transfers are so common that they do not cause much of a stir unless some great principle is involved.

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The principle behind these experiments is that particles hitting the xenon cause the nucleus of the atom to give off a little bit of light.

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As has been thoroughly documented by Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, the marine environmental protection requirements emanating from LOST are rooted in the European-derived "precautionary principle, " a legal tenet requiring assurance that a proposed action will cause no harm to the environment before proceeding.

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All too many people today are ideologues, who are willing to cause any sort of real-world difficulty in their devotion to some abstract principle.

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By this principle, the burden of proof is on the advocates of any new technology that has the potential to cause harm to the environment of the public.

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That is to embed in law the common sense principle that any new proposals or new tax cuts need to be offset so that they don't cause a deterioration in the budget deficit.

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"The cause of reform, so long fought for, cannot afford to have the fundamentally fair and historic principle of majority voting cast aside, " the historians write.

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Andrew Husband, principle lecturer in pharmacy at the University of Sunderland and lead on the Gateshead study said allergies were a significant cause of avoidable adverse drug reactions among hospital in-patients each year.

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