Sentence examples for appealing principles from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was inevitable that Mr. Obama would begin to restate his most appealing principles as he embarks on his re-election campaign, which opened with this speech.

"It's one thing to be a very effective individual; another to be a very effective company," points out Mr Christensen, who is also a non-executive director of FranklinCovey.Work second, family firstPerhaps Mr Covey's most appealing principle was that people should balance life and work.

(d) Negative truths are the most notorious problem case, because they clash with an appealing principle, the "truthmaker principle" (cf. Section 8.5), which says that for every truth there must be something in the world that makes it true, i.e., every true truthbearer must have a truthmaker.

What is really going on here is that we are appealing to principles to rectify a natural distortion in moral judgement.

The latter horn of the dilemma is then avoided by appealing to principles that are best understood in terms of the Bayesian framework.

I will be appealing on principle, as well as to enable us to eat and pay our mortgage.

However, stable computation is an appealing general principle.

Insulin glulisine is appealing in principle, but the advantages of this drug over the other rapid-acting insulin analogs are still relatively unknown.

What that shows is that debates over even very specific principles like these can end up grounding out — either the participants will end up defending their favored principles by appealing to those very principles (citing the book to defend the book) or appealing to other specific principles that the other side shares but gives a lower priority.

A compromise between the greater benefit principle and the worse off principle is thus appealing because each principle responds to the primary deficit of the other.

The Sophists, in fact, were attempting to explain the phenomenal world without appealing to any principles outside phenomena.