Sentence examples for back on the principles from inspiring English sources

If the threat of some deluded terrorists can drive the liberal system to turn its back on the principles upon which it claims to be founded, and to degenerate into surveillance, coercion and majority tyranny over the minority, I hate to think how it would react if faced with the danger of armies stationed at its borders, mutiny, coup d'etats, invasion, or occupation.

Few would argue that Britain should turn its back on the principle of being "a force for good in the world", but Afghanistan has revealed that we are very ill-prepared for such a long-term commitment.

Without going back on the principle of subsidiarity, we must support the initiatives proposed by Mrs Pack, complementing the pilot activities already under way.

As we regain our independent membership, we will use our position to resist attempts to put up barriers to business, including by G7 and G20 countries that are turning their backs on the principles that made them rich and powerful.

"Turning their backs on the principles that made them great.

What matters is how companies at their worst stage are able to change the tide by going back to the principles they were built on.

Instead, she has turned her back on the very principles — human rights, justice, dignity — for which she was honored.

Gordon Campbell, the Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, told the BBC that Sri Lanka had "turned its back on the very principles that the Commonwealth espouses".

With its decision this week, the court turned its back on this principle, and on two men whose sentences are a clear miscarriage of justice.

Faced with the "blooming, buzzing confusion" of the real world, policymakers often fall back on the highest-order principles and the broadest presumptions.

That the people running our federal government have chosen to turn their backs on those principles is a tragedy of its own ― one with the potential to amplify every other disaster that comes our way.