Sentence examples for modest principle from inspiring English sources

A once flat Earth has gone from the centre of the universe to being an insignificant rock orbiting an insignificant sun - the titular Copernican Principle (or the more modest principle of 'Mediocrity').

Be that as it may, a criteriological argument may also be constructed on the basis of a more modest principle, such as that if any reported event meets all four of these criteria, then it is reasonable to accept its historicity.

This is obvious in the case of modest principles in the spirit of (P.11ξ) and (P.14ψ), to the effect that all suitably related entities must have an upper bound.

It took the intervention of Paul Volcker to force the Administration to support even the modest of principle of trying to prevent deposit-taking institutions from speculating with their depositors' money.

Abandoning Nagel's assumption of universality in favor of our more modest default principles seems to allow us to make good sense of his distinction without excluding even fairly radical forms of particularism.

This new attitude must be more than an act: to obey this modest, hands-off principle is what would actually make America the exceptional empire it purports to be.

The core of that morality comes from the father; in effect, Jor-El is God the Father, and Clark Kent's Joseph is Jonathan Kent, fifth-generation Kansas farmer and man of modest but unshakeable principle.

This is because getting into high levels of debt in the assurance that you will make enough to repay it later is the sort of approach that appeals to investment bankers looking for leverage, not people of modest income whose principle is always to avoid debt.

The new compromise appears devised to eke out a modest agreement on principles that each country would adhere to voluntarily.

And the White House left ample room for interpretation in its goal, since "an agreement" could include anything from a more modest declaration of principles to a full-blown accord between the two sides.

In one year during Elizabeth I's reign, according to records at Hampton Court, the royal kitchens roasted 1,240 oxen, 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 760 calves, 1,870 pigs and 53 wild boar.The scale was more modest but the principles the same for the middle class.