Sentence examples for basic tenets of human from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

That's a basic tenet of human rights and Islam.

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.

Many SF writers, like Heinlein, took particular pleasure in upsetting the most basic tenets of the human condition.

"There was outrage that national sovereignty and security are placed above people's rights to protection and assistance, and that the most basic tenets of international humanitarian and human rights law are violated every day without accountability," Ban writes, adding that there is frustration from local groups who feel shut out.