Sentence examples for civil principles from inspiring English sources

The Church teaches moral and civil principles such as community service and that science is a gift from God.

member, board member or reporter question the organization's, or Mr. Glasser's, commitment to civil liberties principles.

It's his actions as a public official that demonstrate insensitivity and hostility toward basic civil rights principles".

Accusations of "racial profiling" in Mr. Lee's case didn't just offer a new example of the historic tension in America between concerns about national security and civil liberties principles.

"We are very concerned that many individuals who you have nominated to serve on the federal bench have records of deep hostility to core civil rights principles and to Congress's historic role in protecting the civil rights of all Americans," said the letter, signed by the group's leaders and sent on the day Mr. Lott stepped down.

The rebel coalition that is now at war with Khartoum includes pro-democracy groups that advocate a secular state, respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights, a multiparty political system and a secular civil code — principles that are included in the coalition's manifesto.

However, civil rights principles played a very different role in the struggle of Native Americans against the injustices perpetrated against them by whites.

Civil rights principles demand inclusion of the individuals from a disadvantaged group in the major institutions of society on an equal basis with the individuals who are already treated as full citizens.

A dispiriting series of tactical retreats from civil-liberties principles has followed.

DETROIT — With plans for new primaries in Florida and Michigan in limbo, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday to accept at least a new contest in Michigan, arguing that he should match his "words with action" because a civil rights principle was at stake.

Enormous sales in America and England followed the publication of his Observations on the nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America (1776).