Sentence examples for asserting the principle from inspiring English sources

Truman was excoriated by the general's legions of worshipers, but most historians have praised him for asserting the principle of civilian authority over the military.

And there's Amendment X (1791), for the avoidance of doubt, asserting the principle of subsidiarity that "powers not delegated to the United States by the...Constitution are reserved to the states...or to the people".

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, asserting the principle of self-determination, was one of many signs that the age of multiethnic empires, such as the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian, was giving way to an age of ethnic nation-states.

Galileo also overthrew the mistaken dogma of Aristotle that motion requires the continual application of force by asserting the principle of inertia: in the absence of external forces, a body has zero acceleration; that is, a motionless body remains at rest, and a moving body travels with constant velocity.

This was followed in 1736 by edicts for the establishment of schools in certain provinces, in 1763 by Frederick II the Great's regulation asserting the principle of compulsory school attendance, and in 1794 by a codification of Prussian law recognizing the principle of state supremacy in education.

After all, Truman, with full support from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had simply asserted the principle of civilian control over the military.

The bill asserted the principle of the minimum wage in the fullest and clearest possible terms, subject to the provision of adequate safeguards against abuse.

In the Rayonist manifesto of 1913, he asserted the principle of the reduction of form in figure and landscape compositions into rays of reflected light.

Thus was born the Ninth Amendment, whose purpose was to assert the principle that the enumerated rights are not exhaustive and final and that the listing of certain rights does not deny or disparage the existence of other rights.

He asserted the principle that war costs more than its direct expenses, for it also costs what its casualties (military and civilian) would have earned throughout their lifetimes if they had never participated in war.

But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.