Sentence examples for without a principle from inspiring English sources

Long, long ago people who despised Liberal Democrats did so not only because they considered them a bunch of ruthless opportunists without a principle between them.

They did so because they considered them a bunch of ruthless opportunists without a principle between them who were egotistical eccentrics too.

A principle which he intended to bring some measure of justice into law ended up with defending laws without a principle of justice.

The policies underlying ex post facto laws are recognized in most developed legal systems, reflected in the civil law maxim nulla poena sine lege ("no punishment without law"), a principle whose roots are embedded in Roman law.

Dawkins, likely inadvertently, has endorsed (without crediting) a principle Prophet Muhammad championed 1400 years prior.

IT TAKES special ineptitude to cheapen a principle without getting anything much in return.

"Without the consciousness of a principle of immortality in the human soul," he writes in his Essay Upon Epitaphs, "man could never have had awakened in him the desire to live in the remembrance of his fellows … To be born and to die are the two points in which all men feel themselves to be in absolute coincidence".

Now one can endorse or agree to a principle without that act of endorsement in any way binding one to obey.

He describes his method in side remarks with phrases like 'following Tarski', or 'following Frege', without ever calling it a principle.

Individuals and groups may still chose to adhere to a principle without the lash of the law.

Philosophically, Plotinus argued that postulating Forms without a superordinate principle, the One, which is virtually what all the Forms are, would leave the Forms in eternal disunity.