Sentence examples for principles of common from inspiring English sources

There are principles of common decency which do the same.

A typical case involving the principles of common law riparianism regards the recreational use of a lake.

Valerie Swigart Pittsburgh, Aug. 9, 2006 To the Editor: The concept that one cannot take a life in defense of property is one of the oldest principles of common law.

The judge ruled that Google could not be regarded as a publisher under the established principles of common law, and that even if it was it would be exempt under regulation 19 of the European Union's electronic commerce directive 2002.

Here he would pore over Blackstone day after day, shifting his position as the sun rose and sank, so as to keep in the shade, and utterly unconscious of everything but the principles of common law".

As a student, Stewart had come under the influence of the works of the Scottish realist Thomas Reid, particularly An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764).

After passage, President Obama congratulated the committee and called the legislation "largely consistent with the principles of common-sense reform I have proposed and meets the challenge of fixing our broken immigration system".

In addition, a considerable number of British cases, decided in the absence of national legislation expressly enabling claims for extraterritorial human rights abuses and therefore based on principles of common-law tort, have revealed a willingness to hold corporations liable for human rights violations perpetrated abroad.

"After seeing the Iron Lady I realised there is a fundamental principle of common decency.

(Violations of the principle of common justice as noted in the daily papers).

A long-standing principle of common law holds that one legislature cannot bind its successors.