Sentence examples for elementary principles from inspiring English sources

Without naming China, a North Korean statement accused it of "abandoning without hesitation even elementary principles".

'There are two elementary principles: first take your people with you.

However, that defanging process infringed the most elementary principles of human rights.

The decisions are incompatible with the most elementary principles of fairness, rationality and good administration.

This president, who has an M.B.A. from Harvard, consistently violates the elementary principles of business common sense.

"In the name of such a rule, the most elementary principles of caution don't count for much".

Except a meaningful grasp of the elementary principle that nobody wants to follow a scowling, sullen, self-absorbed leader.

One choice, always, is to follow the Hippocratic principle: 'First, do no harm.' If you can think of no way to adhere to that elementary principle, then do nothing.

In the same document, John Paul described the "intervention of governmental authority" on behalf of the defenceless as "an elementary principle of sound political organisation" taught by the church for a century.

Because he violated the most elementary principle of diplomacy by drawing a line in the sand, he cannot do nothing in Syria, although there is nothing he can do.

" 'The reasonable-doubt standard provides concrete substance for the presumption of innocence—that bedrock "axiomatic and elementary" principle whose "enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law"...