Sentence examples for former principle from inspiring English sources

The former principle literally saved my life while the latter I've never quite got the hang of — dragging out relationships, jobs, a drinking problem… sentences… to beyond snapping point.

This very common practice has transformed the former principle of 'the polluter pays' to 'pay to pollute'.

Saeed Abutaleb, a former principle-ist parliamentary deputy, predicts Rafsanjani is going to have a big win in the Assembly of Experts.

Then we review the state-of-the-art of high-performance YAG-based and tungstate-based systems, of evident commercial interest in numerous applications, as an illustration of the former principles previously described.

On Wednesday, reacting to the mass murder in Colorado last week, Mitt Romney and President Obama paid lip service to the problem but ducked when the chance arose to stand up for their former principles.

On Wednesday, Mitt Romney and President Obama paid lip service to the problem of gun violence but ducked when the chance arose to stand up for their former principles.

But Fabius adhered to his former principles, still persuaded that, by following close and not fighting him, Hannibal and his army would at last be tried out and consumed, like a wrestler in too high condition, whose very excess of strength makes him the more likely suddenly to give way and lose it.

However, nothing has been invented to replace them, while attempts have failed to adapt the former principles to the new reality.

We thus hypothesize, that this locus functions according to the former principles and may only be able to silence foreign nucleic acids inside a host which is able to supply an RNase III enzyme.

It was further amended on 24 June 2013 to correct the homophone referring to Kevin Owens as Locog's former design principle, rather than principal.

The former represents principles of justice as principles that would be agreed to by rational and self-interested individuals for the regulation of a society in which they are to cooperate with one another (Gauthier 1986).