Sentence examples for a high principle from inspiring English sources

It would mean sacrificing a high principle: no country has the right to over-run and annex another.

The official German government response to the ruling said: "The right to free movement of persons is a high principle and symbolises the idea behind the EU.

The German government welcomed the ruling in a labour ministry statement: "The right to free movement of persons is a high principle and symbolises the idea behind the European Union.

But the American experiment has worked in large part because we guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle.

"There are people sitting on edge over this, but we have a higher principle here," said Corneila Orr, who taught Sunday school class today.

But only through the struggle of affirmative action are they coming to realize that such compromises, wisely pursued, can actually serve a higher principle: the supreme virtue of being fair to those who have been most unfairly treated.

"I had wanted to seek out a higher principle of life than the search for mere contentment, to pursue emotional experiences that could not be immediately transposed to a party of young people in a cell phone ad, even if it meant delving into ugliness, contracting an STD, or lifting my shirt to entice someone jerking off over the Internet.

The first sort of ignorance is the ignorance a higher principle has of what is lower than it.

Its content is not derivable from a higher principle; it is externally a culture's values and institutions, and internally an aspect of one's identity.

Juries show us that manmade law is often distinct from a higher principle, namely, justice.

I hope the great advantage I enjoy under Your Majesty, which I own I would never expect in any other change of government, may reasonably convince Your Majesty and the world that I am actuated by a higher principle .