Sentence examples for from a principle from inspiring English sources

"We're committed to going from a principle — the voluntary participation of the private sector — to concrete reality".

Sites such as Facebook clearly benefit from a principle whereby if all your friends are on Facebook, then you're more likely to get a Facebook account yourself.

"You can't start from a principle, and from an assumption, that the authorities are lying to you," Mr. Brandet said, sounding a bit exasperated.

Although the new rules could be applied only in carefully circumscribed situations, they stepped back from a principle dating back to the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, when American judges wrote an international code of medical ethics.

Mikhail Korchemkin, the head of East European Gas Analysis, said that it became clear that Gazprom had "switched from a principle of maximizing shareholder profits to one of maximizing contractor profits".

Deduction from a principle could not yield such a balance.

Philosopher Lawrence A. Blum asks us to consider the specific principle, "Protect one's children from harm," a principle that flows from the general principle of benevolence.

The scenario is then assessed from a principles perspective as the extent to which the principles bear on the case.

The variational principle is deduced from a general principle of physics by modifying it through an involutory transformation.

The fact that we are seeing two women, rather than a man and a woman, generalizes the emotion, exalts it, raises it from a fact to a principle.

The generalist can understand this as the extraction of a principle from an earlier case, which we then apply to later ones.