Sentence examples for contested principle from inspiring English sources

Soon after, however, Ackerman explained that he meant that families should keep growing — not exactly a contested principle — but that settlements should not.

Unlike many of his followers today, Holmes was sufficiently skeptical of his own exclusive ability to discern the truth that he insisted that judges should not use their undemocratic power to impose supposedly objective (but actually, vigorously contested) principles of right and wrong on a deeply divided nation.

Despite the impressive tool kit of modern biology, this is still a debate about distant history, shot through with ambiguous facts and contested first principles.

With this legacy, the court concluded that the entire property should be considered jointly held by Muslims and Hindus and distributed under relevant Indian property statutes, Mr. Salve said, which divide contested properties on the principle of fairness.

The principle has multiple pedigrees, and came to recent political prominence largely through its role in quelling fears of centralization in Europe a contested role which the principle has not quite filled (Fleiner and Schmitt 1996, Burgess and Gagnon 1993, Føllesdal 1998).

6.. Regarding the proposition, "Everything contained in the clear and distinct idea of a thing can be truthfully affirmed of that thing," the Port Royal Logic says, "This principle cannot be contested without destroying everything evident in human knowledge and establishing a ridiculous Pyrrhonism" (p. 247).

In more recent times, the primary importance of this principle has been contested.

Indeed, this period seems to have been the high-water mark of Esperanto, though, even then, its principles were so contested and revised that it's hard, at times, to figure out which version of Esperanto Schor is talking about.

Weber also showed something essential to this project, namely, that Cantor's Theorem continues to hold; that is, it does not depend on overly-strong logical principles which are contested by paraconsistentists.

The third principle is the most contested of the three.

Moreover, while employment under oral (often viewed as informal) arrangements is usually considered as offering less stability, in many countries (such as Ireland, Burkina Faso, or Zambia for some contracts), verbal employment agreements are also legally binding, with the same force as written agreements, and hence, at least in principle, unlawful dismissals may be contested in courts.