Sentence examples for an elementary principle from inspiring English sources

In the same document, John Paul described the "intervention of governmental authority" on behalf of the defenceless as "an elementary principle of sound political organisation" taught by the church for a century.

And so it is laid down by jurists, as an elementary principle, that the laws of one State have no operation outside of its territory, except so far as is allowed by comity; and that no tribunal established by it can extend its process beyond that territory so as to subject either persons or property to its decisions.

We test scientific claims by means of their implications, and it is an elementary principle of logic that claims whose implications are true need not themselves be true.

On more than one occasion an American founder restated an elementary principle: the small standing army was to hold off an invader until our true line of defense, properly equipped and trained citizens, could muster and deploy.

Indeed, marriage as an elementary principle of human kinship systems has long been considered a central aspect of between-group alliances [5].

Except a meaningful grasp of the elementary principle that nobody wants to follow a scowling, sullen, self-absorbed leader.

Of the banning, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, wrote: "America still has a constitutional protection of free speech, and I have been amazed... to see how few people in this country are willing to stick up for that elementary principle... a country once famous for free speech is now hysterically and expensively sensitive to anything that could be taken as a slight".

It should guarantee that the winner of the election is the candidate who receives the largest number of votes cast by human beings — an elementary democratic principle, which is honored not only in every other democracy in the world but also in our own, hundred-per-cent-American gubernatorial, senatorial, Congressional, mayoral, and dogcatcheral elections.

Because he violated the most elementary principle of diplomacy by drawing a line in the sand, he cannot do nothing in Syria, although there is nothing he can do.

One choice, always, is to follow the Hippocratic principle: 'First, do no harm.' If you can think of no way to adhere to that elementary principle, then do nothing.

" 'The reasonable-doubt standard provides concrete substance for the presumption of innocence—that bedrock "axiomatic and elementary" principle whose "enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law"...