Sentence examples for a big principle from inspiring English sources

Obama gave up on a big principle, and Democrats showed — again — they can't win the message war.

"But to me it was a bigger principle".

"It is hard to stand against it and say there is a bigger principle".

But the guarantee that this sliver of income at least would be forthcoming might foster security and experimentation, while also establishing, perhaps, a bigger principle.

But, remember, there's a bigger principle at stake, and someday, if you're pulled from a burning building or an ocean, you'll be glad you stood with us today.

Patience is a "big picture" principle.

There was no big principle involved in his decision.

McCain just about wrecked his presidential campaign standing up for a rational immigration bill, and it would seem only fair if some of the people who have been denouncing all the anti-immigrant pandering could reward him by jumping on his bandwagon.... Except that McCain's other big principle is staying the course in Iraq, if it takes the rest of the millennium.

It would mean giving up on some big principles, like a public plan to compete with private insurers, in return for what could be just a few Republican votes, a veneer of bipartisanship.

The idea was to combine the "low-friction arthroplasty" principle of Charnley together with the advantage of a big femoral head principle of MacKee.

But both camps claimed that big principles were at stake.