Sentence examples for declared principles from inspiring English sources

A policy whose declared principles include a huge stress on stopping genocide can have perverse effects; it can actually make genocide more likely.

Or, rather, President Clinton would not have abandoned his declared principles on habeas corpus because he would have known that the price would be his attorney general's departure.

These usually involve inappropriate sex, chicanery, bribery and blackmail, and changing the course of history by forcing people to compromise their declared principles and make sacrifices in order to survive.

"Timor-Leste hopes to see Australia put action to its declared principles, and remains optimistic that the leaders of our great neighbour will demonstrate courage and commit to a clear course of negotiations to settle the maritime boundaries between our two countries once and for all," said the minister of state, HE Agio Pereira.

Further, those policies disproportionately target communities of color, running roughshod over our declared principles of justice, fairness, and proportionality in the process.

But the Time Warner-ABC conflict proves that it is time to start declaring principles and working on instituting them.

In his dedicatory remarks, President George W. Bush stated, "The true [American] revolution was not to defy one earthly power, but to declare principles that stand above every earthly power the equality of each person before God, and the responsibility of government to secure the rights of all".

Through it all, he declared, "My principles are more important than the money or my title".

Like many Enlightenment-born nations, we declared our principles at the start — liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness — and trusted that any friction among these ideas would be sorted out, eventually, in the churn of civic life.

Like many Enlightenment-born nations, we declared our principles at the start liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness and trusted that any friction among these ideas would be sorted out, eventually, in the churn of civic life.

The Labour government declared the principle "contrary to common sense" and abolished it.