Sentence examples for competing principle from inspiring English sources

The competing principle is that, whatever the abstract rights and wrongs of the decision involving Degussa, the most important element in the picture is the feelings of the Holocaust survivors themselves.

Contractualism focuses each person's mind on the burdens imposed on himself or herself, and on other individuals and invites us to withdraw our burdens if we see other individuals suffering much more under a competing principle.

They are balanced against competing ethical principles and in this instance, the competing principle is non-maleficence.

According to Worster, Powell never entirely reconciled the contradiction between these competing principles.

As with any dilemma, that of interventionism also arises from the struggle between two competing principles.

"Extensive litigation seems likely to result from parties litigating to reconcile two competing principles – the welfare of the child and the duty to promote shared parenting.

Of course, it would take more work to show in detail that scientific principles and methods would turn out to have more of these democratic virtues than other, competing principles.

The future of the academic library lies with many, but ultimately depends on our ability to harmonise the seemingly contradictory and competing principles of technology, budgets, library space, services, copyright, and open access.

As the debate rages over the Transportation Security Administration's new air travel security methods, we should bear in mind that an essential ingredient of a free, democratic society is the ability and willingness to balance competing principles.

Smith, as Rothschild reads him, did not see state and market as competing principles, as later free-market ideologues were to do, just as Condorcet was not actually the prophet of the authoritarian state he is often taken to have been.

For Altman, both parties have become calcified in a mindset that pits economic growth against economic fairness, and he hopes to unify those two competing principles.