Sentence examples for principles to condemn from inspiring English sources

Our tribal political affiliations lead us to defend personalities or policies that we ought, based on our principles, to condemn.

For many of us Ukip's victory is also a sign of the failure of New Labour, which has neither provided alternative policies nor even got the principles to condemn Ukip for its blatant racism.

In theory, the principle is hard to condemn: it essentially says that we ought not to develop and use a technology unless it is considered safe.

As Hamilton wrote later, in Federalist No. 22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

Again, from The Federalist No. 22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

By Hendrik Hertzberg January 8, 2011 Again, from The Federalist No. 22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

Last fall, the UC Regents opted not to adopt the State Department definition and instead appointed a working group to draft a more general "Statement of Principles Against Intolerance," as a way to condemn multiple forms of discrimination.

In 1863 Montalembert was invited to address a large Catholic congress at Malines, and he took the opportunity to defend the concept of a free church in a free state and to condemn intolerance in principle.

All countries are happy to condemn nuclear weapons in principle – even those who are building more of them.

It is easy for ministers to condemn the death penalty in principle from Foreign Office briefing rooms.

At the league, a venerable New York institution founded in 1923 that can be counted on to condemn American military policies, the guiding principle is that all wars are a crime against humanity.