Sentence examples for fixed principles from inspiring English sources

He would not have to look far to identify a government without fixed principles.

Scales and balance are one thing, but fixed principles of law do not and should not oscillate in political winds.

turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins.

That the Plenipotentiaries assembled in Congress at Paris cannot better respond to the intentions by which their Governments are animated than by seeking to introduce into International relations fixed principles in this respect.

For James this meant that the pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins.

"Scholars differ over the text for 'rules of Islamic sharia' because these change all the time, while the constitution should express fixed principles".Al-Azhar (pictured above) has even blocked a push by Salafists, a puritan strand of Islam that won a quarter of votes in last year's parliamentary elections, to enshrine al-Azhar itself as the sole authority for interpreting sharia.

His followers, meanwhile, have to forsake yesterday's fixed principle in order to keep their power and their places.

The universe is a single, vital organism, not created according to some fixed principle but spontaneously regenerating itself.

This made them into a party without fixed principle, intent largely on the pursuit of power for its own sake.

It confirms the perception many people have already of a man without fixed principle, whose only constant feature is a sense of entitlement to high office.

One fixed principle in this field is our consistent rejection of the argument that "any program which in some manner aids an institution with a religious affiliation" violates the Establishment Clause.