Sentence examples for most sacred principles from inspiring English sources

The law was a frontal assault on one of the most sacred principles for Democrats: the right of organized labor to collectively bargain.

A principal defender of the new surveillance policy, and much of the rest of the "rogue justice" detailed by Greenberg, was deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo, who gleefully "ignored some of the most sacred principles of American democracy and law", sometimes without even bothering to inform his boss, Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The reduction of average life expectancy in many countries is an undisputable sign that one of the most sacred principles of human rights law, the principle of progressive realization, is being violated, demanding urgent response.

I was especially heartened to discover that I was not the only psychotherapist for whom the sudden confrontation with a new political reality appeared to represent a clinical game-changer, a seeming violation of some of the most sacred principles of practice I had learned in my early training.

The real worry is how many allies will remain allies if we violate our most sacred principle as Americans and turn our backs on nations that want to be free.

Additionally, the former Speaker's description of the life issue as 'practical' is a rejection of the most sacred principle that each and every life has value, a principle recognized by our founders in the Declaration of Independence of the most basic right with which every human is endowed.

WHEN it comes to money management, the most sacred rule is to disclose conflicts of interest.

In one stunning act, the most widely known preacher in America tossed away the sacred principles of his movement for a suspiciously liberal lapsed Catholic.