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How to use the word principles in a Sentence?

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The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.

Kermit Victor Lipez

added by Normando
5 months ago

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

added by JokerGem
9 months ago

I am driven by a profound belief in taking meaningful actions that advance the wellbeing of humanity and his environment. I believe that each individual has a role to play regardless of the level, capacity, or sector involved, for we all share a collective responsibility. My lifelong career objective is to embody the principles of living, loving, learning, and leaving a lasting legacy that positively impacts the world.

Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
10 months ago

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

Jacob G. Hornberger

added by Normando
10 months ago

They got along really well as soon as they got to know each other and had been working together since. Xu would be charting out guiding principles and Ding would be responsible for the implementation side of things.

Luo Shengchun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the history of the United Nations, no other regime has ever tried to ban women from working for the Organization just because they are women. This decision represents an assault against women, the fundamental principles of the UN, and on international law.

Roza Otunbayeva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The principles that we profess – they are enshrined within our mission statement and bylaws, but we’re more than that. … These are our neighbors, our cousins – we see each other in a grocery store. So, it was bigger than that. And we decided that we needed to communicate differently.

Elizer Darris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since the start of the year, the average price of Yeezy sneakers has increased but sales overall have decreased on StockX, this is in line with the principles of supply and demand and consistent with what we’d expect to happen when no new supply is in the market.

Drew Haines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is in line with the principles of supply and demand and consistent with what we’d expect to happen when no new supply is in the market.

Drew Haines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For peace to be just, it must uphold the principles at the heart of the UN Charter: sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence. For peace to be durable, it must ensure Russia can’t simply rest, rearm, and relaunch its war in a few months or a few years, any peace that legitimizes Russia’s seizure of land by force will weaken the Charter and send a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they can invade countries and get away with it.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was so nice to hear someone reflect American values in a hopeful, positive – it wasn’t really demeaning of anybody, he spoke of positive principles and values, and didn’t get into personalities and demeaning.

Bob Kopp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many AP courses, especially Many AP courses based in history and culture, deal with contested topics. The AP Program navigates those challenging waters by relying on our AP Principles. These principles make The AP Program abundantly clear that we stand against censorship and indoctrination equally.

College Board

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the youngest Governor in the nation and a powerful advocate for the popular, commonsense conservative principles that will put our country back on a better course.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you have a critical mass of that generation that subscribes to those principles and sets them as their North Star to be able to live in a society like that, that gives me a little bit of hope.

Leonard Steinhorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think Ron’s a good governor, we agree on a lot, but we have very different styles. We both very much agree that we have to push back on this woke stuff… I’m more of a conservative principles free market guy, I think, more than Ron is. He’s trying to get some headlines, and he’s doing a good job of it.

Chris Sununu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The policies pursued by these states have sparked a mass exodus of productive Americans from these jurisdictions, with Florida serving as the most desired destination, a promised land of sanity, many of these cities and states have embraced faddish ideology at the expense of enduring principles.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As things stand now, there is no formal code of conduct for the Supreme Court and justices themselves get to decide how they conduct themselves both on and off the bench without any formal guiding principles.

Gabe Roth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was the right moment for his theory of the case, he could apply the principles that have really guided him throughout his whole career.

Stef Feldman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve laid a strong foundation for our Commitment to America this Congress, and we’ll be building on those principles starting day one in January. For our committee, that begins with robust oversight, something that’s been sorely lacking under the current Democrat majority, if we’re in the majority, Republicans will be conducting hearings and questioning agency officials in order to fully understand how American taxpayer dollars are being spent.

Rebekah Hoshiko

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re going to stand up for the truth, we’re going to stand up for the core principles that made this country great. And our state is the state where woke goes to die.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It did not adopt a platform at the 2020 convention. So, there is not a set of central principles on which it’s based. It’s whatever Donald Trump says people should believe at any particular moment, that’s not my definition of a party.

Christine Todd Whitman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

NASA has brought together some of the world's leading scientists, data and artificial intelligence practitioners, aerospace safety experts, all with a specific charge, which is to tell us how to apply the full focus of science and data to UAP, the findings will be released to the public in conjunction with NASA’s principles of transparency, openness, and scientific integrity.

Daniel Evans

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You know, it's ironic and really disturbing that in the last several in the last five years, I've received multiple awards for my work, fighting for and defending human rights, fighting for and defending religious freedom, and now over the past year, the government has threatened me with termination, excluded me from the workforce, discriminated against me and subjected me to harassment, for standing up for those very principles, for human rights and for religious freedom and for the right to bodily autonomy and medical choice.

Marcus Thornton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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