Sentence examples for principles that justify from inspiring English sources

Ford declined to meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, probably the world's foremost opponent of detente, & incarnation of the American principles that justify its rivalry with Russia.

Out of Order The Declaration of Independence, which articulates the principles that justify the American Republic's very existence, listed the offenses of the King and Parliament that required separation from England, revolution and war.

The Great Prelude to the laws in general ends in the latter part of Book 5, after which the Athenian proceeds to sketch, often in considerable detail, the constitution, the political and social institutions, and the laws of this new city, along with the political and ethical principles that justify them.

Given some principles that justify norms in this sense, the interpreter might add to the set certain further norms such as those implied by the explicit communication that constitutes the original norms, if doing so would give better effect to the principles and thereby improve principled consistency (on the current understanding of that notion) in the way government treats its citizens.

Importantly, the recent carbon victory points to the central role that NGOs have played in holding American firms accountable to the public interest; that is, the principles that justify the government subsidies in the first place, i.e. the advancement of foreign affairs goals such as overseas development.

The challenge for philosophers has been to come up with a single moral principle that justifies both responses.

If they had been forced to acknowledge the existence of a hitherto unnoticed general principle that justifies an extension of government interventions in the marketplace, the five conservative Justices would certainly have balked.

So in choosing a principle that justifies coercees in acquiescing under coercion, we need to take into account that this principle may alter the dynamic between coercer and coercee in ways that may in turn affect the rationality and fruitfulness of using coercion.

Kant states in his notes that moral sense theories are better understood as providing a hypothesis explaining why we in fact feel approval and disapproval of various actions than as supplying a principle that justifies approval or disapproval or that guides actions (NF 19 117 # 6626).

Paranoia about foreign invaders is the principle that justifies the quality of life in the so-called Hermit Kingdom.

And since the battle of the Republican Right -- sorry, that's redundant, of the Republican Party -- against health care, climate change legislation and financial regulation all turn on a pernicious assault on the very idea of public goods and the public interest, health care is effectively being saved by deep-sixing the principle that justifies it and a host of other vital democratic programs.