#accordance

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law. ↗

— John Boehner

#borders #both #conducting #defend #includes

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #both #claims #contests #each

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#accordance #applicable #been #both #canons

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#equilibrium #general #her #impulse #inspires

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. ↗

— Peter Singer

#actions #affected #best #consequences #good

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. ↗

— Epictetus

#bring #find #pass #seek #them

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#accordance #away #critical #developers #distribute

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#capacities #compel #find #give #her