Sentence examples for hereditary principle from inspiring English sources

Succeed, on the other hand, and the hereditary principle may yet hold at News Corp.

This was purely about securing heirs and shoring up the hereditary principle.

Next we are ending the outdated hereditary principle in the House of Lords.

"It's nobody's birthright, and I don't believe in the hereditary principle".

Like the government, we think that the hereditary principle has no place in a democracy.

The hereditary principle has no place in a self-respecting Parliament.

True, the hereditary principle has been applied flexibly in the past.

It's one of the few examples of the hereditary principle outside the House of Lords.

It is the hereditary principle in the Lords that offends most strongly against democratic instincts.

In his book he talks about the humility of the hereditary principle.

The pitch for the hereditary principle will be a much harder sell.