Sentences with phrase «just as a matter of principle»

I am not saying that this oil would be bad, but just as a matter of principle I try not to support businesses which attempt to sell their products based on deception rather than the merit of the product.

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This included a discussion of the independent registered public accounting firm's judgments as to the quality, not just the acceptability, of AMD's accounting principles and such other matters that generally accepted auditing standards require to be discussed with the Audit and Finance Committee.

These discussions included a review of the reasonableness of significant judgments, the quality, not just acceptability, of the Company's accounting principles and such other matters as are required to be discussed with the audit committee by Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 61, as amended (Communications with Audit Committees), by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

In place of accepting a basic ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.

A culture that equivocates over the first principles and, say, identifies matter with the principle of evil would be incapable of accepting the Incarnation; just as a culture infected withpantheism would see no requirement for the Incarnation in the first place — nor any Revelation!

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

Just as the most intense energy of the male and the most enduring persistence of the female principle form the unlimited power of nature, as love and life consist in separating and uniting, in restlessness and steadiness, in energy and being, so the creative and the receptive forces work to produce the perfect creation of genius: the more matter is formed by the creative force, the more intense the struggle, the greater the effect.

KEDAR, personally I would only pay all players their full salary when fit — when unfit just a basic far lower wage, written into contracts, as a matter of principle — so I agree with you on Wilshere.

The reason why I am now convinced that this is the only way forward is not just a matter of direct democratic principle, but also because I believe the government must be given an incentive to negotiate a Brexit outcome that the majority of the people (and nations) would prefer to remaining in the EU, as opposed to letting it get a «bad deal» (blaming Brussels, of course), only to be able to placate their diehard Brexitaliban wing by going for the «no deal» option.

Instead scientists want to measure G as a matter of principle — just because it's there.

We know as a matter of principle, we should hate the crossover design given that it's just a high - riding car with little more space than its lower - to - the - ground car cousins, and that a wagon or a full - size SUV are more practical.

The No Kill Advocacy Center has set the uplifting goal of ending non-euthanasia killing, challenging progressive animal shelters to pioneer new ways of serving all their stakeholders without accepting harm to animals as the collateral cost, and arguing that a better and ethically consistent future in animal sheltering rests on the self - evident principle that the animals still being killed matter just as much as those who no longer face death.

Considering that The Legend of Zelda's only other franchise comparison for voiceover involved a series of games known and parodied the world over as little more than a mockery, I was well aware that any voiceover in another Zelda game would be closely scrutinized and critiqued just on principle; I was determined to not let that happen again with such an important entry in the franchise, no matter how much time and effort it took.

I don't know what my state law is for dental records, I believe it is 5 years, since I just keep them for 10 years as a matter of principle.

Mr. Monckton is, I have little doubt just as much of an atheist regarding Hinduism or Islam as I am, recognizing that they are far from proven, in direct contradiction with all sorts of matters of fact and moral principles that we now take for granted, and hence that it is not reasonable to accord them any particular degree of plausible belief.

But while legal claims are best left relatively confined and technical, as a matter of political morality, it is appropriate to denounce the hearing fees not just as violations of specific constitutional rules and principles, but as an unconscionable barricade against access to justice.