Sentence examples for imposing principles from inspiring English sources

One does not genuinely treat others as equals if one insists on imposing principles on them that they cannot reasonably accept, even if this imposition takes place against the background of egalitarian decision making processes.

The Bretton-Woods institutions imposed principles like efficiency, lean government, deregulation and privatisation for public policy in the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) to LMIC [ 29].

Kymlicka concludes, then, that liberals on the outside of an illiberal culture should support the efforts of those insiders who seek reform but should generally stop short of coercively imposing liberal principles (1995: 167).

Really, you should never try to impose feminist principles that even Gloria Steinem refuses to pay attention to.

The following cooperation frameworks proposed by the EU reflect this new posture and impose these principles as self-evidence.

For its part, the world's third largest economy has recently signaled that it is willing to follow at least some internationally imposed trade principles.

Addressing this issue, Kymlicka (1995) argues that "there is relatively little scope for legitimate coercive interference" because efforts to impose liberal principles tend to be counterproductive, provoking the charge that they amount to "paternalistic colonialism".

This law and the Santa Clara case raise the general issue of whether and when it is justifiable for a liberal state to impose liberal principles on illiberal (or not fully liberal) political communities that had been involuntary incorporated into the larger state.

The challenge with Russian culture originated with Peter, who had imposed Western principles upon the nation in the interest of perestroika (translated in English as "restructuring" or "rebuilding").

Furthermore, Kymlicka suggests that the coercive imposition of alien liberal values is likely to fail: " Attempts to impose liberal principles by force are often perceived... as a form of aggression or paternalistic colonialism" [ 20].

The very structure of material reality imposes a principle of trade-offs in both nature and human affairs: One always gives something in order to gain.