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Despite their self-representations as bastions of democracy, all Western states have violated tenets of the liberal democracy ideal.

Those executions have been condemned in parts of the Muslim world as violating tenets of the faith.

Complicity in torture by health professionals violates basic tenets of medical ethics.

Even if true (which is hard to know because the details have not been disclosed), the programme itself with its enforced disappearances and black sites, which even the International Red Cross is not allowed to visit, violates basic tenets of international law.Even if a country bans torture, how should it treat information that others have extracted this way?

The McDougal lawsuit contends that an agreement that has the effect of coercing a person not to speak out on matters of public concern violates "foundational tenets of our system of government, including freedom of expression and conscience and freedom of the press".

We cannot condone cloning Neanderthals for curiosity's sake alone because it deliberately violates ethical tenets.

Critics argue, however, that Free Basics violates the tenets of net neutrality by working with Internet service providers to direct traffic to a handful of sites and services.

The idea that Google's approach violates the tenets of network neutrality had old networking hands such as David Isenberg, author of the seminal paper "Rise of The Stupid Network," puzzled.

We are a long-standing and growing movement of faith leaders, and we believe that using religion to justify discrimination and hatred violates central tenets of faith -- including love of neighbor and care for the poor.

Lawyers for the media companies have argued that such a rule violates a tenet of the First Amendment.

Hunter, 70, said that denying him the chance to defend his record "violates every tenet of fairness upon which the union was founded".