Sentence examples for Sacrifice from inspiring English sources

"It's pretty horrific to push a mother to a point of saying, 'Well, if I need to sacrifice myself for my children, maybe that's what I'll do,' " she said.

The basic problem is that we care so much about fairness that we are often willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it.

"The idea has been that you had to sacrifice return but that is not true," he said.

It is quite right that PEN should honour their sacrifice and condemn their murder," he said.

But, as Raymond Aron once put it, "it is a denial of the experience of our century to suppose that men will sacrifice their passions to their interests".

The play is about coal, fury, fire, families, friends, politics, betrayal, loyalty, sacrifice, guilt, bad behaviour and the beautiful, difficult, stonkingly exasperating country we are living in today.

Most of the economic indices of late such as the lowering of growth rates to jut 0.7% confirm the widely held view across Dublin and the entire Republic that 2012 is going to be another year of fiscal pain and sacrifice.

Last century we were prepared to sacrifice many of the world's great cities and tens of millions of human lives.

On the anniversary of the start of one of the planet's worst wars, how can we consider that taking the train rather than the plane is a "sacrifice"?

If the sacrifice seems worth it, it is definitely time to take a leap into the unknown.

The most important question you should ask yourself is: "Do I really want to do this?" You need to be aware that you are going to sacrifice a great deal of your time (and your sanity at times) building a company, and nothing worth having comes easy.