Sentence examples for supposed principle from inspiring English sources

Do such things – issues of supposed principle – matter if … well, if it's just Ukip?

It takes more satisfaction in a complete loss on supposed principle than in a partial victory, let alone in the mere avoidance of worse outcomes.

But supposed principle ties the mighty Mail, winner of so many campaigns, to the mast – and a future led by politicians the Mail now openly excoriates.

Lord Hutton and the BBC itself will surely be considering carefully whether it was wise to persist with this battle as a matter of supposed principle".

Somehow, though, this never gets to the obvious conclusion: that defending your nation is obviously hypocritical unless a member of your own family has been killed by terrorists … But second, notice how quickly a staple of right-wing outrage goes out the window if there's possible political gains to be made by violating a supposed principle.

It was another Canadian rock icon, Neil Young, who articulated one of rock and roll's supposed principles: "It's better to burn out than to fade away".

The man evidently didn't tell other leading Republicans that he was even publishing a book -- about the party and its supposed principles: GOP aides are irked that Steele set forth principles in his book for reviving the party without discussing them in advance or letting them know what was coming.

Each time we abandon the belief that deliberate killing is wrong under any circumstances, we reinforce the message that our supposed principles of justice and the rule of law are a false hypocrisy – that human rights only apply if you are one of "us", not one of "them".

For example, suppose principles of justice were to impose a duty to practice impartial benevolence towards all people, and thus a duty to show no greater concern for the welfare of ourselves and loved ones than we do towards millions if not billions of others.

The first of these was the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense which showed that there are mental phenomena that cannot be interpreted as any form of sensation and that "intelligence supposes principles, which, as conditions of its activity, cannot be the results of its operation" (ibid: 3 emphasis original).

So even if an influence of the selected patient sample on the generalisability of the study has to be supposed, the principle of this study is not affected.