Sentence examples for vague principle from inspiring English sources

Saying you favor the vague principle of tax reform is easy.

It identified Israel as "Jewish and democratic," a vague principle that nevertheless guaranteed the protection of life, body, dignity, property, privacy, and (touchingly) "intimacy".

The first of these men of vague principle is Jorge, a would-be creator of a new cocaine ring in collaboration with a gang of eastern European Muslims.

In the UK, the closest thing to regulating standing times is a vague principle that states it is acceptable to stand for up to 20 minutes.

But President George H.W. Bush did a good job tying the conflict not to a vague principle (Kuwait's territorial integrity) but to one that hit Americans where they lived: the price of oil.

It identified Israel as "Jewish and democratic," a vague principle that nevertheless guaranteed the protection of life, body, dignity, property, privacy, and (touchingly) "intimacy". So long as the Law of Human Dignity remains in place, with no mitigating force in basic law, Israeli plaintiffs will have a chance of overturning prejudicial elements of the old Zionist legal structure.

violated," instead relying upon "a handful of vague principles, such as ethical conduct and institutional control".

All honour the vague principles laid down by Koyata Iwasaki, the final president of the old Mitsubishi zaibatsu.

In 1985, a law was passed requiring all political parties to accept pancasila, a package of vague principles that Sukarno enunciated as the national ideology in 1945.

But even these have collapsed in negotiations, such that the final declaration now reveals only vague principles, denuded of substance by spoiler governments.

Mr. Hu spoke extensively about his "scientific view of development," a set of lofty, vague principles supporting harmonious economic, social and political development.