Sentence examples for question the principle from inspiring English sources

"It has established beyond question the principle that those who commit human rights abuses in one country cannot assume they are safe elsewhere," Mr. Straw told Parliament.

They might even move beyond restrictions on the movement of labour and start to question the principle of passport- and visa-free travel across the EU.

"However, we are pleased that the ruling does not, in any way, bring into question the principle of this or other authorities housing people out of borough where it is necessary.

The current American election cycle has repeatedly called into question the principle that words – uttered, written down, heard – are the most powerful basis there has ever been for social justice.

Still, a decision by Washington against intervention would not "call into question the principle of a sanction" against the Assad government, said Romain Nadal, a diplomatic spokesman for Mr. Hollande.

In an unusual political attack on a judicial decision, Manuel Valls, the interior minister, said the verdict was regrettable because it "called into question the principle of secular education".

Certainly, with parliament, the bureaucracy and the judiciary all in conservative hands, it is becoming harder to write critically of the government, let alone question the principles that underpin the Islamic republic.

As the Court wrote in 1987 in McCleskey v. Kemp, in which a challenge to a death sentence drew on a statistical study that found racial disparities in sentencing, "McCleskey's claim, taken to its logical conclusion, throws into serious question the principles that underlie our entire criminal justice system".

It is a human rights violation and calls into question the principles of gender equality.

The dilemmas that confront physicians in perinatal medicine call into question the principles of biomedical ethics [ 20].

No government questions the principle'.