Sentence examples for on familiar principles from inspiring English sources

The goal is not one formed on familiar principles — common language or history or bloodlines — but the very opposite: a supranational, fundamentally Continental cultural understanding and reference point.

It was based on the familiar principle of the bicycle wheel; its roof had a diameter of 100 metres (330 feet), with a steel tension ring at the perimeter from which two layers of radial cables were tightly stretched to a small tension ring in the middle the double layer of cables gave the roof stability against vertical movement.

I'm a psychologist, so when I explored the New Testament to gain a better understanding of Jewish-Christian relations, I naturally drew on familiar psychological principles and tools for understanding human behavior.

The Wicksell Keynes theory, therefore, may be regarded as a particular application of previously familiar principles.

But I can't help thinking that this new tool – created on the familiar internet principle that all information is good – will simply accentuate the gap between the information rich and poor, another of those unattractive gaps growing in society, the wealth and health gaps, the pay and education gaps and their like.

This put her on familiar territory.

We can stay on familiar ground here.

The proofs are based on familiar methods of calculus.

That is, if intentionality is endemic to thought, then the mind must not be what we think it is a part of nature whose ideas operate on impact principles familiar from Newtonian mechanics.

Having a virgin birth, obligation has no father among familiar moral principles such as consent, utility, fairness, and so on.

Familiar lofty principles will not be enough.