Sentence examples for principles to resist from inspiring English sources

Second, feminist scientists and scholars of science encouraged the education and training of scientists "to conduct their investigations in accordance with feminist principles, to resist androcentric currents of mainstream research communities and in some cases to organize their intellectual production along theoretical lines identified with feminism" (Kohlstedt and Longino 1997, 6).

To him, it's a matter of principle to resist being pushed around by the rich and powerful.

But an even deeper problem is that it is a matter of principle with the neoconservatives to resist any legally binding international agreement that constrains US options, especially in the world of business.

This ornery reviewer tried to resist Alex's charms on principle (the principle that says any author who keeps telling us how remarkable her subject is cannot possibly be right).

Allen had even worked with video gamers, whom she found to be more receptive, if less able-bodied, than the bikers, who tended to resist coaching on principle.

Vollmann's prolific career (at least twenty books, some enormous, in twenty-five years, including that National Book Award winner) and his logorrhea-ish prose style speak of a man determined, as he says, to resist the reality principle in favor of "self-assertion and aggrandizement".

It is hard to resist the conclusion that principles are invoked in public life to rationalize the control of the vulnerable.

A moral principle by its nature will be more difficult to resist in this manner.

North Korea continued to resist agreeing to a draft statement of principles that would move the disarmament talks forward.

Among the most useful principles they could adopt, says Zandi, would be an agreement to resist protectionist impulses.

Incorporating cultural safety principles in health care practices and research may shift health structures to resist dominant essentialist views of culturally and socially heterogeneous groups.