Sentence examples for consistency of principles from inspiring English sources

Speaking as an anti-war, anti-occupation leftist, I actually agree with a number of their criticisms of the left (see my talk on the subject), sections of which fail miserably on the tests posed by the Euston Manifesto authors: critical openness, respect for historical truth, consistency of principles, rejection of double-standards, moral relativism.

Experience in office brings with it the baggage of uncomfortable past associations; long consistency of principle lays you open to a charge of dogmatic inflexibility, but vision is, it seems, unimpeachable.

And there has been a complete lack of consistency of principle.

The poor man shunning the shower in the shed would not have been impressed by the consistency of his principles.

In the conception in discussion, for a putative set of principles, consistency, in some specified sense, with the set of the original norms is a condition of eligibility additional to and independent of merit.

A numerical finite element model of the experimental setup is implemented to validate the experimental method and confirm the consistency of the measurement principle.

Although it is presented as a point of principle - "consistency, consistency" - this commitment was made during a wobbly moment in his campaign for the leadership.

Although the application of Good Clinical Practice principles generally led to improvements in the quality and consistency of trial operations, these principles have also contributed to increasing trial complexity and costs.

Because we want to trust, and trust requires some measure of consistency around principles.

They lack the consistency and strength of principle to warrant the title.

Henry Sidgwick, for instance, claims that 'the philosopher seeks unity of principle, and consistency of method' and that the role of the moral philosopher is to 'enunciate, in full breadth and clearness, those primary intuitions of Reason, by the scientific application of which the common moral thought of mankind may be at once systematised and corrected' (Sidgwick 1907 373–374).