Sentence examples for pure principle from inspiring English sources

This strikes us as a shabby attempt to pervert the pure principle of honesty.

"How much of it was political calculation, how much is pure principle?" Ellis said, when asked about Dean's change of heart.

Powering Clinton's 50-minute speech was a deeper debate, one that has become central in the battle for the Democratic nomination: the case for pragmatism over pure principle, the case for what's possible rather than what's ideal.

The thought leaders of the American Right had built a clean, critical vessel from pristine text and pure principle in which to navigate their debates with liberals and progressives; when an angry populist movement with lots of racists in it took control of this vessel and started slamming it into the Capitol, these conservative thinkers staged no counter-counter-revolution.

No particular conception of happiness can be the basis of the pure principle of the state, and the general conception of happiness is too vague to serve as the basis of a law.

One might still object that this freedom of choice is incapable of being the basis of a pure principle of right for the same reason that happiness was incapable of being its basis, namely, that it is too vague in itself and that when specified by the particular decisions individuals make with their free choice, it loses its universality.

Not implausibly, they can blame poverty on official corruption and offer as an antidote the pure principles of the Prophet".

"God had determined to make the convention," one speaker assured the assemblage, "the medium of reviving... throughout this great... Nation, the pure principles of Free Government... ; and by founding here a real... Republic, to diffuse its light and truth to all Nations, until every member of the great human family shall know and rejoice in this great Salvation".

For many liberals, he is an unrelenting pragmatist too ready to compromise the pure principles of Obama-ism; by the independents and moderate Republicans who switched to candidate Obama in 2008, he is held to be too divisive and over-partisan, a roadblock in the way of the new politics of reason that the incoming President promised.

For Cohen, pure thinking generates the pure principles of knowledge through judgment – the epistemic structure that, he thinks (following Kant), relates different concepts to one another.

Table 3 shows that, for the three pure principles, the initial toxicity follows the order Naproxen = Diclofenac < Finasteride while at the end of the tests the order results D < F < N with a toxicity decrease in all the cases.