Sentence examples for down principles from inspiring English sources

The Party no longer issues directives; it lays down principles upon which Government should act.

Britain has signed up to an international code of conduct for "private security service providers", laying down principles covering accountability to the law and human rights.

Rather than entering that politically sensitive debate, the bishops set down principles for guiding the country's approach to what they acknowledge is a complicated issue.

Starting in the 1950's, Mr. Rawls set down principles for the postwar welfare state, providing intellectual spine to liberals seeking tough-minded defense of their instinct to take from the rich and give to the poor.

In effect, the world had set down principles it was not yet ready to uphold; who would set the rights of a single human being above the interests of a state, or an alliance, during the cold war?

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators laid down principles on Thursday for planning and paying for new power lines, part of a long-term policy effort to help the nation's electricity grid grow enough to meet the demands of renewable energy and a competitive electricity market.

As De Waal has written, "Imagine the cognitive burden if every decision we took needed to be vetted against handed-down principles".

So we put down six principles– principles that we will use to judge these on a case by case basis.”.

The premise was to do away with keywords by categorizing apps into increasingly more specific subcategories that worked on a "drill-down" principle — eliminating the guesswork and potential inaccuracy of keywords altogether.

Use the debt roll-down principle to accelerate how you pay down your debt.

This would have allowed room for more debate and perhaps more conditions - like a requirement that TARP beneficiaries write-down principle on underwater mortgages.