Sentence examples for acting in accordance with principles from inspiring English sources

Indeed, deontologists take the right rather than the good to be fundamental to ethics, and tend to see moral action in terms of acting in accordance with principles that are rationally acceptable to all.

The company claimed that it was acting in accordance with its principle of respecting local laws.At an international conference on foreign investment, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Kazakhstan's president, warned against importing democracy too rapidly to Central Asia.

But Vladimir Padrino insisted the security forces were acting "in accordance with the rule of law".

But a traditional sense of honor, courage, and responsibility, and no doubt a desire for the adventure and danger of war, kept them from acting in accordance with the higher moral principle of not killing.

Williams's argument appears to make acting with integrity incompatible with acting in accordance with act-utilitarianism.

In promulgating Rule 10C-1 the SEC was acting in accordance with Exchange Act Section 10C f).

"General counsel is confident the authority is acting in accordance with the Brown Act," he said.

Malawi is clearly acting in accordance with its international treaty obligations, and the rule of law.

Canada says it has been acting in accordance with its extradition treaty obligations and the rule of law.

Russia is acting in accordance with the talks we had with them".

Johnson had a good-faith argument that he was acting in accordance with his constitutional authority.