Sentence examples for elementary notion of from inspiring English sources

And why is there such an elementary notion of making the world "work better"?

"Some didn't have the most elementary notion of how to behave," he said.

The ruckus has prompted much head shaking in France, with one cinema manager saying, in typically elegant Gallic fashion, that the kids "didn't have the most elementary notion of how to behave".

The first English settlers on the Atlantic Seaboard of North America brought with them only elementary notions of law.

The Bank of America settlement, Rakoff wrote, "does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality".

And the defense memorandum is quick to quote the judge's words in another case when he criticized the gain analysis for playing such a significant role that appears contrary to "elementary notions of justice or even common sense".

The settlement, he wrote, "is not fair, first and foremost, because it does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality, in that it proposes that the shareholders who were the victims of the bank's alleged misconduct now pay the penalty for that misconduct".

The settlement is not fair, he writes, "because it does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality, in that it proposes that the shareholders who were the victims of the bank's alleged misconduct now pay the penalty for that misconduct".

This shows, says Zermelo, that the theory of well-ordering rests 'exclusively upon the elementary notions of set theory', and that 'the uninformed are only too prone to look for some mystical meaning behind Cantor's relation a ≺ b' (Zermelo 1908a).

Microbes defy a simple notion of individuality.

Apparently one needs to remind Russians of the elementary notion that totalitarian systems fall apart whereas democratic systems respond and adapt.