Sentence examples for long-standing principles from inspiring English sources

If long-standing principles of law and policy are to be discarded so lightly, at least let it be done without his approval.

Mr. Fuerth told reporters that the vice president's comments were based on his long-standing principles and the fact that President Clinton was going to Russia next week, and that they were not intended as a response to Mr. Bush.

"If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack," the document continues.

Although it has gained more acceptance in recent years, the fundamental approach has many critics, who claim that it cribs long-standing principles of value investing, which have been around for decades and practiced widely by a host of bargain-hunting money managers like Warren E. Buffett.

Sessions told immigration judges, whose courts are part of the Justice Department, that his decision "restores sound principles of asylum and long-standing principles of immigration law". He said it will help reduce the growing backlog of 700,000 court cases, more than triple the number in 2009.

"By endorsing new legal and technical limits on what we can post and share online, the European Parliament is putting corporate profits over freedom of speech and abandoning long-standing principles that made the internet what it is today".

It's a long-standing principle of Anglo-American jurisprudence".

A long-standing principle of common law holds that one legislature cannot bind its successors.

This is a fundamental and long-standing principle of public law, the basis of judicial review.

She argued that her appearance before the commission would violate the "long-standing principle" of executive privilege.

A long-standing principle of Israeli defense doctrine is that it will never ask the United States to fight for it.