1.   Although not intransigent, Wash was clearly uneasy about the specific link with Bedfordshire as the precedent to establish a principle.

2.   Establish a principle and adhere to it even if it is vague to others.

3.   Establish the principle that when your office door is shut you must not be disturbed.

4.   In resolving these conflicts, the courts establish legal principles that apply to similar cases.

5.   It is the duty of the judge to consider each case before him in the light of existing law and established principles.

6.   Quintilian was one who credited Zeuxis with having established painterly principles of light and shade.

7.   The process by which legal principles are established is pre-eminently political.

8.   The research nurses are establishing the principle that the rigid compartments of the medical profession are not as watertight as they appear.