This approach would put us on a path toward undermining the Universal Declaration and the basic tenets of human rights.
In an article on these pages on Oct. 23 ("Why China is wrong about Liu Xiaobo"), Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, argued against the notion that supporting a Chinese dissident could worsen conditions for the opposition, asserting that silence undercuts the most basic tenets of human rights.
Proposition 8, much like the banning of same-sex marriage in Maine and now New York, is a huge movement backwards, a betrayal of the most basic tenets of human rights and the social contract, which any junior high kid with a dog-eared copy of Locke or Hobbes can quite easily explain to you.
The new republic, the United States of America, acknowledgedfreedom as a basic tenet of human experience.
The idea of setting an alarm on a weekend seems to violate a basic tenet of human decency.
One of the basic tenets of human morality is fair treatment of individuals.
Life is chaotic, and actions have consequences; these are basic tenets of human existence.
These groups have never meant to promote education, civil society, moderate religious views and the basic tenets of human dignity.
She'll remind the party, too, that without fighters and strong party membership involvement, important tenets of human rights are easily trampled over.
In a speech likely to find favour in Downing Street and among Eurosceptic Conservatives, the senior judge questioned what has become a basic tenet of judicial hierarchy and said legal interpretation in Britain of human rights legislation had taken a significant "wrong turning".
