Sentence examples for principle that the person from inspiring English sources

When Congress passed the copyright bill in 1976, it created an important exception to the general principle that the person who creates a work of art is its author.

The first step, of the 12-step recovery program pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous, and now used by anyone who says they're addicted to anything, is based on the principle that the person who says they have the addiction is "powerless".

Rylands v Fletcher contained the principle that "the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape", with a requirement that this use of land be "non-natural".

Why would it be wrong to change the law, so that the Church would not be permitted to invoke a BFOQ defense of its restriction of the priesthood to men? Griffin (2013 10199) and other legal thinkers (Eisgruber and Sager 2007: 65) have suggested that the answer involves a principle that protects the liberty of persons to form associations that express their common values and beliefs.

On March 3, 2005, he submitted his handwritten petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the legal principle that requires the government to bring a person before a judge or court to determine the lawful grounds of his or her arrest.

Having faced down the totalitarian dangers of fascism and communism, the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely – because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress.

The principle that no person is above the law, especially those at the top, is among the most precious of all the rights that the brave protesters in Tahrir Square have sought.

It was his commitment to the person and the principle that drove him".

Last is the principle that no person or other agent, including the state, has the right to tell a citizen what is in his or her best interest -- a current of antipaternalism that has always run far stronger in the American idea of democracy than in other liberal Western countries.

"These ideals invoke the very grand principle that a person has the absolute right to refuse medical treatment as long as they have the mental capacity to make that decision.

Of what use is a principle that is only as good as the person uttering it?