Sentence examples for better principles than from inspiring English sources

Coleridge now conceived the design of circumventing the disastrous violence that had destroyed the idealism of the French Revolution by establishing a small society that should organize itself and educate its children according to better principles than those obtaining in the society around them.

Or are they no better in principle than the practices that doomed Sodom and Gomorrah?

And because it is rooted in the communal human condition — for him, the idea that we are all God's children — it is a better organizing principle than, for example, class struggle, which assumes a dialectic of exclusion.

Thank goodness a band of the world's most pernickety scientists the people who call themselves metrologists is labouring night and day to change this unhappy state of affairs.Metrologists regard today's definition of a kilogram as little better, in principle, than defining a unit of length as something based on the size of the king's foot.

No one better embodies these principles than a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient.

This could be a welcome change: the bigger-is-better principle has caused more than one museum, the Guggenheim most prominently, to get too far in front of its art and its mission.

Automated extraction system provided better separation of the active principles than conventional standard extraction procedures.

The SNP has persuaded left-of-centre Scots that they are better defenders of social democratic principles than their opponents.

The self-explanation condition showed better understanding of the endgame principles than the two other conditions, as indicated by the move predictions in the learning phase that more often exemplified correct application of chess principles.

Leonardo also distinguishes between painting and sculpture, claiming that the manual labour involved in sculpting detracts from its intellectual aspects, and that the illusionistic challenge of painting (working in two rather than three dimensions) requires that the painter possess a better grasp of mathematical and optical principles than the sculptor.

No one author better exemplifies the application of these principles than Ernst Haeckel (1834 1919).