Sentence examples for rightly ordered from inspiring English sources

President Bush has rightly ordered a review of this practice to make sure that safety is not compromised.

The judge has rightly ordered the prosecution and defense to try to resolve the case through mediation.

The court rightly ordered Gov. David Paterson to give about 4,500 mentally ill people the option of moving into supported housing, where they could live independently with the help of social service organizations.

In Six Books of the Commonwealth (1576), his canonical study of sovereignty, the French political philosopher Jean Bodin thus offers a far-reaching definition of the republic: "the rightly ordered government of a number of families, and of those things which are their common concern, by a sovereign power".

Aristotle uses dikaion, for example, to indicate that a society is "rightly ordered": that it displays the correct structure of human relationships "Right" in this objective sense can also be attributed to individuals.

Or consider the Lunyu or Analects 1 2, where the importance of rightly ordered family relations is emphasized for right order in the state ("He who has grown to be a filial son and respectful younger brother will be unlikely to defy his superiors and there has never been the case of someone inclined to defy his superiors and stir up a rebellion").

A continent torn by the two most horrible wars in history achieved a remarkable half century of peace and prosperity, based on a marriage of liberalism properly so called (individual freedoms, including the entrepreneurial kind) and socialism rightly so ordered (as an equitable care for the common good).

In considering such rightly-ordered-appetites views of freedom, I again focus on abstract features common to all.

When the article was used as evidence, the reporter was ordered to testify, rightly giving the defense a chance to cross-examine him.

Jack Cochran, the New London coach who ordered the wrong-way play, said, rightly, "This isn't football".

(The latter, in both early and later writings, allows for a freedom of will that is not ordered to the good, but maintains that it is of less value than the rightly-ordered freedom. See, for example, the discussion in Books II-III of On Free Choice).