Sentence examples for an abstract principle from inspiring English sources

Why subordinate their hopes to an abstract principle?

Americans support free expression as an abstract principle.

Appealing to people's altruism or common sense seems to fail as an abstract principle, in traffic as elsewhere.

In Elvis's case, this simple lesson was not just a matter of paying lip service to an abstract principle.

Once again, respondents are considering free speech not just as an abstract principle, but also in response to who advocates for it.

People tend not to care about equality as an abstract principle; instead, they use fairness to negotiate their place in a social hierarchy.

All of these crosscurrents among the many cultures brought with them partial- or wholly-abstract renderings that are obvious outgrowths of a more basic, if not a primal, abstract principle.

In the end, it is history and context, the very substance against which a purportedly abstract principle defines itself, that determines a principle's content and power.

In the concept of ummah, Muhammad supplied the missing ingredient in the Meccan system: a powerful abstract principle for defining, justifying, and stimulating membership in a single community.

He insists that the dividing line between state and society must be drawn according to a strict abstract principle rather than through empirical adaptation.

It's a lot easier to defend an attractive-sounding abstract principle like "state sovereignty" than to defend, say, segregation on the merits.