Sentence examples for fundamental common from inspiring English sources

It did not go to bat on behalf of a fundamental common law principle.

The UK supreme court in Horncastle lost sight of a fundamental common law principle.

"I have great faith in the decency and the fundamental common sense of Australians," he said.

"A further fundamental common law principle is that trials should be conducted in public, and the judgments should be given in public.

Laws passed by Parliament are not to be construed as abrogating fundamental common law rights, privileges and immunities in the absence of clear words.

"But I think fundamental common ground that the vast majority of Republicans share is the belief in limited government, freedom and personal responsibility," Mr. Toomey said.

But, he added, "I also believe that with our rights come fundamental, common-sense responsibilities".

That a procedural vote was considered a breakthrough demonstrated how hard it has been to get even the most fundamental, common-sense reform of the nation's inadequate gun laws past the gun lobby.

Michael Walker Bellport, N.Y., Jan . 6 , 2009 To the Editor: It is unfortunate that so many fiduciaries (including managers of foundations, endowments and funds) could invest so much money with Bernard L. Madoff apparently without performing fundamental, common-sense due diligence.

That's a fundamental, common-sense premise of our government.

Even before Ebola, however, these same health care workers were risking their own health and well-being, and that of their families, by treating patients with TB without respiratory masks or going without basic vaccinations all fundamental, common-place measures taken in American hospitals.