Sentence examples for constitutional precepts from inspiring English sources
The interim constitution that was drawn up last year, deeply influenced by American constitutional precepts, contains a web of checks and balances designed to force alliances across ethnic and religious lines, including a provision that effectively requires a two-thirds majority in the assembly to name a prime minister and cabinet.
But violating constitutional precepts?
Álvarez, the state-security spokesman, said, "Even though she acted within Law 701, she went against the constitutional precepts that protect human rights".
It found that Cleveland officers "violate basic constitutional precepts in their use of deadly and less lethal force at a rate that is highly significant".
The margin for reversal is narrow, and I rest assured that sound constitutional precepts will survive the result the Court reaches today.
As for the constitutional precepts that might influence the future of the union, the uneasy truth is that this still-evolving patchwork of relationships justifies forecasts of both survival and fragmentation.
When a deeply divided commission approved last year the rules that the court struck down in March, Mr. Powell said that the majority had improperly invoked states' rights in a "trivial misuse of a cherished constitutional precept".
The Constitutional precept is the first legal ground for impeachment proceedings against Thomas.
It concerns whether Missouri, on the basis of the constitutional precept of separation of church and state, can exclude a Lutheran church that operates a daycare center from a state program that awards grants for resurfacing playgrounds.
The courts ruled that the Bush administration grossly violated constitutional and legal precepts by scooping up and holding terror suspects with no or flimsy charges and no trials.
While prostitution is a moral crime that will always continue in one form or another and should be legalized, sanitized, taxed and controlled, human slavery violates basic constitutional and human rights precepts and can't be tolerated at all.
