Sentence examples for purported principles from inspiring English sources

Whether moral dilemmas are possible will depend crucially on whether "ought" implies "can" and whether any pair of duties such as those comprised by (1) and (2) implies a single, "agglomerated" duty that the agent do both A and B. If either of these purported principles of the logic of duties is false, then moral dilemmas are possible.

In light of the fact that our behavior fails to align with our purported principles, we are compelled to reassess the value of privacy to American life and what we can do if we hope to reclaim it.

"A disgraceful betrayal of the legal principles you purported to stand for," read one message.

Friedman's textbook was dense with pages of complicated-looking equations that purported to link his principles to higher occupancy rates and higher yields per player.

A nonprofit membership organization which purports to uphold principles of "limited government, free markets, federalism and individual liberty," ALEC is comprised of state lawmakers and corporate representatives with a mutual interest in seeing legislation adopted at both the state and federal levels.

Twenty-five years later the U.S. government attempted to prevent the magazine from publishing an article that purported to reveal the operating principles of the hydrogen bomb; the ensuing legal battle became a significant First Amendment case.

"Any legal principle purporting to draw a line between good and bad H.M.O.'s would embody, in effect, a judgment about socially acceptable medical risk," Justice Souter said.

Though hippies have long purported to identify with various underclasses, the movement's principles (free love, drug experimentation, far-flung travel) were quickly taken up by those best equipped to practice them: the filthy rich.

As a result, every penalty schedule purporting to incorporate retributive principles exclusively fails to the extent that any given punishment cannot be justified by those principles alone.

In particular, the leading judgment of Lord Justice Judge is charmingly English, purporting to find the principles of the European Convention 'bred in the bone of the common law', and a part of 'the folk understanding of the community as a whole'.

Nigel Farage, UKIP's ex-leader, stated that the veil is "something that is used to oppress women", while Sarkozy, whose committee on full veiling is due to report next week, has purported that this kind of covering by women breached the French Republic's fundamental principles of "sexual equality and secularism".