Sentence examples for the very constitution from inspiring English sources

What is at stake is the very constitution, literally and figuratively, as its lines of amity and enmity are redrawn.

That horse has left the barn; the very constitution of modern humanity is based on our self-conception as imagining beings.

To the 27-year-old feminist with a fan base she calls her Reigndeers, Proposition 60 is an assault on her human rights, her artistic freedom and the very constitution itself.

The reforms they opposed had been been passed by the very body of which they are a member and had been been approved by the US supreme court, the guardian of the very constitution they claimed to be defending.

At a time when the nature of the religious polity was in question, the analysis of idolatry and sacrifice produced a conceptual structure for understanding, in anthropological fashion, the very constitution of religious and political community.

This fatal disposition has its origin in the very constitution of man in that primitive, and universal, and invincible sentiment that urges it towards its well-being, and makes it seek to escape pain.

The ferocity of his criticism was reserved for those who he said were undermining this very constitution, the forces of Hindutva (Hindu-ness) that form the backbone of the BJP government.

In the last novel of Larsson's pulse-racing posthumous trilogy, the fiercely defiant Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander is in a hospital, fighting for her life, while a political conspiracy jeopardizes not only her freedom but the country's very Constitution.

It draws together many (though not all) of the loose ends scattered throughout the trilogy, while twining them around a political conspiracy within Sweden's Security Police SAPOO) — a conspiracy that not only jeopardizes Salander's freedom but also threatens the country's very Constitution.

But what about the very first constitution, historically speaking?

Its very constitution invites corruption.