Sentence examples for principle to read from inspiring English sources

In his later years, Tolstoy refused on principle to read anything Sofiya wrote.

Since the judges are still required, at least in principle, to read every entry, publishers will now be allowed to nominate only one novel, rather than two, which means that smaller publishers will have fewer chances to get on a shortlist.

At the University of Edinburgh, Gary Dickson, a reader in history, said he had refused on principle to read the book, intimating that it had contributed to a situation where, as he said, "Rosslyn Chapel, one of the treasures of Pre-Reformation Scotland, has unfortunately become a Mecca for medievalizing fantasists".

So in the second edition Ayer amended the principle to read: a statement is directly verifiable if it is either an observation statement or is such that an observation statement is derivable from it in conjunction with another observation statement (or observation statements), such derivability not being possible from the conjoined observation statement(s) alone.

The subsections of the State-of-the-Science portion provide the underlying support to the principles articulated, and to read the "Principles" section without a full appreciation of the State-of-the-Science section is to invite oversimplification and misinterpretation.

So it's necessary to reassert that fundamental principle: the right to read anything we like.

We learned about Bernoulli's principle and how to read the telltales, which are little yarn streamers attached near the jib that you can use to gauge airflow and steer the most efficient course.

Bloom's section on poetry opens with a single page on Housman, followed by a bit less than that on Blake -- poets whom he uses to suggest "a first principle for how to read poems: closely, because a true criterion for any good poem is that it will sustain a very close reading indeed".

Born in North Dakota in 1924 and raised in Ohio by a violent father and an alcoholic mother (fused into one appalling character in "The Pedersen Kid", who is found frozen after a snowfall; the piece begins with his neighbours' frantic attempts to revive him – an exception to the nothing happens principle), Gass had to read everything.

That principle enjoins you to "read as much into an utterance as is consistent with what you know about the world".

The principle impediment to reading journals, particularly scientific journals, is their high subscription costs.