Sentence examples for principle of double from inspiring English sources

The new case violates the principle of double jeopardy and also contradicts the first one.

Critics say terminal sedation violates the principle of double effect because its intention is not just to relieve pain and let death happen, but actually to cause death.

It is only the second time that the Crown Office has sought to reopen a criminal investigation using changes to the principle of double jeopardy.

Was she trying to say, he asked Dr. Correoso, that if morphine killed a patient, "you wouldn't mind?" "Then you've already broken the principle of double effect," Dr. Correoso replied.

But Justice Sotomayor rightly explained that the principle of double jeopardy applies when a jury makes a decision for acquittal, and that the form of the acquittal is less important than the substantive determination.

Some requests were botched: in one case, Egyptian prosecutors misunderstood the principle of "double criminality", which means a suspect can usually be extradited for breaking the requesting country's laws only if a similar law exists in the extraditing country.

INTERNATIONAL Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about a new trial ordered by Italy's highest court in the case of Amanda Knox, an American student accused of murdering her roommate, an exchange student at the University of Perugia, in 2007, misstated the principle of double jeopardy as practiced in the United States.

Finally, in classical India, one finds ontic formulations of the principle of double negation.

The principle of double effect is much more specific than that.

One possible defense from moral philosophy is the widely discussed doctrine (or principle) of double effect.

In a 1494 treatise, Luca Pacioli of Venice first explained the basic principle of double-entry bookkeeping: the separate calculations of the sums of credits and debits had to equal the final account of capital.