Sentence examples for challenged the principle from inspiring English sources

The migrant and refugee crisis challenged the principle of open borders.

He challenged the principle that the supreme leader was above the law.

A few years ago, almost no Chinese scholar challenged the principle of nonintervention, of infringing on the sovereignty of other nations.

The prime minister and a spokeswoman for Charles said they were disappointed that the ruling had challenged the principle that senior members of the royal family were able to express their views to government confidentially.

In this atmosphere, new arrivals from the North and from Europe not only challenged the traditional Southern institution but also challenged the principle of states' rights (sovereignty of the states within the union).

The conversion of the ecclesiastic see to one ruled by a Calvinist prince challenged the principle of ecclesiastical reservation.

But the surge of migrants has shredded that welcome and challenged the principles — and many of the practical benefits — of the Schengen zone.

After college he won a fellowship with the Steppenwolf Theater Company and while in Chicago helped found the Cook County Theater Department, a company that challenged the principles of traditional acting training, like the idea that a scene cannot work without the presence of conflict.

One particular conflict escalated this week, as Level 3 Communications charged that Comcast 's increased fees in response to nearly doubled traffic over the network challenged the principles of Net Neutrality.

Modern philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes have challenged the principles of teleology and perfectionism, arguing against the former that human beings are mechanistic rather than teleological systems, and against the latter that good and bad depend upon subjective preferences of valuing agents rather than on objective states of affairs.

We believe that it was extremely important to legally challenge the principle of censorship of the arts".