Sentence examples for a practical principle from inspiring English sources

How's this for a practical principle: don't use a sledgehammer to swat a gnat.

Introduced first as a practical principle, taqiyyah, which is also attributed to ʿAlī and other imams, became an important part of the Shīʿite religious teaching and practice.

The difference in mass is so slight for ordinary chemical reactions that mass conservation may be invoked as a practical principle for predicting the mass of products.

The difference in mass, in fact, is so slight for ordinary chemical reactions that mass conservation may be invoked as a practical principle for predicting the mass of products.

It also concerns the force, rather than the form, of a practical principle.

The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction concerns the form of a practical principle, whereas the other distinction concerns whether a reason is a reason for an agent to do something or a reason for something to happen.

Companies in the public eye should therefore add a further practical principle: abide by the spirit of the times.

The process of coming to understand a first practical principle may be exemplified as follows, in relation to the basic good of knowledge.

This idea suggests that the autonomy of the experienced nurses must be accepted as a key practical principle.

It follows trivially from the supposition that all practical principles have this form that whenever one agent has reason to promote a state of affairs that any agent who can promote N will have reason to do so.

Presents a dozen practical principles for taking responsibility for your own life.