Sentence examples for vague principles from inspiring English sources

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.

Apart from that, there was a set of vague principles for a "systemic risk tax" on banks which will only be brought in if other countries agree.

Roosevelt's friend Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. warned that "no part of the conduct of life" would be safe from government interference on such vague principles.

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

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.