Sentence examples for upon a principle from inspiring English sources

A proposal for a more sensitive HFGW detector due to Baker and based upon a principle first enunciated by Li and co-workers has become known as the Li-Baker detector.

George Eliot's Middlemarch is probably the greatest English novel to be written upon such a principle, imagining every character to have his or her human reasons and fears.

It's a principle upon which diversified, developed economies surely rest.

"We are not guided here merely by the short term or practical reaction of politics, but a principle upon which we stand, that this is a hijacking of an election".

It's a principle upon which our nation was built, enshrined in the First Amendment and the national anthem taught in schools.

What these leaders have come to understand is a principle upon which Planned Parenthood has always stood: women's reproductive health care is a human right that knows no borders and is essential for the health and well-being of all people.

I have mentioned the Opinion of the Officers and these hints to Congress upon this Subject; from a principle of duty and because cause I am well assured, it is most foreign to their wishes or intention to excite by any act, the smallest uneasiness and jealousy among the Troops".(1).

The puzzle of Pierre relies upon a translation principle.

Nor (a related criticism) does Rawls envision agreement upon a global principle of distributive justice, or even a global tax on more advantaged societies' wealth or natural resources, to be redistributed to less advantaged societies.

Jews establish the sub-religion of Freemasonry upon a central principle.

Each of these proposed mechanisms of action of the PP-Ins Ps are based upon a fundamental principle in signal transduction: their cellular levels are altered in a predictable manner in response to a specific intracellular or extracellular stimulus.