Sentence examples for cases on principle from inspiring English sources

Both customers are pursuing their cases on principle.

In the dual world of Condit-saturated television, there is, on one side, Dan Rather of CBS barely reporting the Levy case, on principle.

It has a policy against removing material from its archive (except in rare cases), on the principle that the record should be preserved.

Bravo, David Brooks (Aug. 29), for making a conservative case based on principle without once slinging mud, avoiding issues, talking down to voters or denigrating the other party.

There is absolutely no point in burying one' s head in the sand and always maintaining the opposite of what is in fact the case, on the principle that the more you insist on something, the closer it comes to becoming a reality.

It's an opportunity to take principled positions, or in the worst cases, simply to oppose on principle.

If their daughter is acting on principle in one case, it should be applicable in the other.

Mr Koizumi has also supported America's firm line on North Korea since October, when the regime's attempt to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons became public.Most importantly, Mr Koizumi has consistently linked the two cases in principle, on the basis that dangerous regimes cannot be allowed to possess such weapons and that such regimes have to be confronted with a united diplomatic front.

Hence the Cyber Command legal conference, which avoided specific cases while dwelling on principles.

For example, when discussing cases of moral progress, such as the abolition of slavery in the United States and improvement over the last century in civil status of women in Europe and the United States, Kitcher focuses on the reasons for moral change that were in fact operating in these cases rather than on principles that might rationalize the changes without necessarily explaining them.

Some years ago, Christine M. Korsgaard, a Harvard philosopher and Kant scholar, started working on a Kantian case for animal rights (one based on principles of individual freedom rather than case-by-case suffering, like Singer's).