Sentence examples for its own principles from inspiring English sources

To this day it stubbornly resists all modern ideologies and prejudices, and yet it had its own principles of decency.

We were very divided, you see, between those who thought we should do all we could to prove our loyalty to America, and those who believed the best way to display our love for America was to hold it to its own principles.

These tweaks would not make American capitalism less American: they would make it truer to its own principles.

BOTH pacific and martial currents run through American culture, and pacifism has struggled as much with its own principles as it has with the nation's abiding militaristic streak.

Richard Bennett, the head of Amnesty's UN office, said: "This is a stark example of why the UN needs to stand up for human rights and its own principles – otherwise it will rapidly become part of the problem rather than the solution".

Welcoming Turkey into the EU would mean Europe would have to reconcile itself with its own principles: the principles it has all too often betrayed in practice.

But in trying to fend off the pleas for assistance, the administration is in the awkward position of having to explain why it violated its own principle by granting or offering assistance to two economically important and politically powerful industries, airlines and insurers, in the weeks after the attacks.

Thinking is, then, for itself a presuppositionless origin, that is, it is its own principle: principium (Echardus, In Ioh. n. 38; LW III, 32, 11: "… ipsum principium semper est intellectus purus …": "The principle itself is always pure intellect …").

Indeed, if the Principle were the principle of all being, it would, paradoxically, be Its own principle (while the "First" can be defined only as the being that Itself has no principle at all; the whole as such has no principle: Ilāhiyyāt, I, 2, 14, 1 16,20).

When it comes to health care, the Heritage Foundation looks at its own principles--and blinks.

Since this thought is a thought of thinking, however, and thus itself thinking, this thinking that has been thought principiates its own principle in retrograde fashion.