Sentence examples for forward-looking principle from inspiring English sources

For epistemic reasons only, Nozick proposes Rawls's difference principle a forward-looking principle, specifying what the future should be like as a "rough rule of thumb for rectifying" historical injustice ((1974), 231).

If Labour's "fight-back" is to result in electoral success, unity around outward-facing and forward-looking principles, attitudes and policies will be essential.

In some of the literature, a distinction is made between backward-looking and forward-looking principles [ 9].

A forward-looking responsibility principle, on the other hand, is a consequentialist notion, down-prioritising patients whose current imprudent health behaviour might affect prospective treatment (e.g. rationing access to liver transplantations for non-abstainers as continued alcohol consumption could damage the new liver).

Still, once Mr. Langrée was brought in, the festival directors embraced a set of forward-looking common-sense principles that enabled them to inject new purpose into the festival without rejecting its identity.

Last but not least, hope is forward-looking, forward-moving and a positive principle in troubled times.

On March 1, a national holiday marking the anniversary of a 1919 Korean uprising against Japan, President Lee vowed to abandon "myopic nationalism" and urged the two countries to "foster a forward-looking approach in line with the principles of pragmatism".

"It is equitable, forward-looking, delinieating a permanent maritime boundary in the Timor Sea, guided by the principle of achieving an equitable solution," he said.

According to the principles of evidence-based medicine, a well-designed and forward-looking study is needed, with large samples in multi-center organizations.

The credit rating agencies, in principle regulated by the SEC, have done little to strengthen their roles as forward-looking estimators of credit risk.

Palacký's ideal scenario was to reconcile the conflicting principles of Czech nationalism and historical continuity (the so-called Bohemian historical rights) in a forward-looking federal scheme.