Sentence examples for founded on a principle from inspiring English sources

Our nation was founded on a principle of religious tolerance".

"We operate within a system of collaboration and co-operation, while the planned English reforms are very much founded on a principle of competition.

And the action, though new in specie, is founded on a principle fully established, that a man must so use his own property as not to injure that of others.

The simplest answer is that none of the existing mission groups provide a natural fit for Keele, a university founded on a principle to break away from established patterns.

It is founded on a principle of greatly prolonged dense, deep sounds, such as unison long and short trumpets with the double-reed or the seemingly endless bass chant of groups of monks, whose long drawn-out notes are punctuated by sharp extended bursts of percussion.

He noted that our country was founded on a principle of religious freedom; that the Scouts' bylaws require equal treatment of every religion's teachings; and that certain denominations — the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)., for example — ordain gay and lesbian ministers.

The country was founded on a similar principle to "offshore processing": Britain's dispatch in the late 18th century of convicts to a faraway land in Oceania, where they, too, would be invisible.

Our patent law is founded on a basic principle that both granting genuine patents and weeding out bad patents are important to promoting innovation.

"Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle, that we are all created equal.

Hence, he argues, Kant's conception of morality as founded on a priori principles of practical reason is untenable.

The 'right not to know' is founded on an ethical principle which emphasizes patient autonomy and gives patients the right to refuse certain medical information.