Sentence examples for principle lays from inspiring English sources

Experience in office brings with it the baggage of uncomfortable past associations; long consistency of principle lays you open to a charge of dogmatic inflexibility, but vision is, it seems, unimpeachable.

His election-winning alliance in 1997, principle laid aside, was with the founder of the KCIA.

The effect of the Indian government's proposal for the nuclear liability law was to override the "absolute liability" principle laid down by the Indian Supreme Court after the Bhopal disaster.

Judge Wald said in her summary that the appeals chamber was guided above all by the principle laid down by the chief prosecutor at the Nazi Nuremberg trials, "that we must establish incredible events by credible evidence".

Such a principle laid down the path toward "a very crude egoism".

That was a good principle laid down in the past.

The basic principle – laid out by pioneer herpetologist, Bill Haast, who died last year at the age of 100 – is that regular exposure to the venom results in the body developing an immunity.

The legal principle laid down in Lines International was approved by the Court of Appeal in Registrar of Vehicles v. Komoco Motors Pte. Ltd. (2008), but found not to apply on the facts.

One is that the human body should not be exploited for commercial gain, and I have to tell Commissioner Verheugen that this is not laid down elsewhere; nowhere, in fact, is this principle laid down and made binding in law.

Part II of the Principles lays out the thesis of the identity of space (extension) and matter, develops a definition of motion in the "true, or philosophical sense", and sets out the fundamental dynamical laws of his system.

Each principle in the Children's Rights and Business Principles lays out actions to respect and support children's rights.