Though the dollar amount is relatively small, the company and Galesburg residents cite a larger principle.
But Robert Chira, a lawyer who represents opponents of the project, said there is a larger principle at stake.
He added: "And there is a larger principle that, unless we can do this, then only the wealthy and the incumbent can run".
Assistant United States Attorney Jacqueline Romero said that the jurors "understood why it is we're going after these things, and that there's a larger principle involved here".
But there's a larger principle at stake, one that will be brought to bear on your relationship with your husband as both a partner and a co-parent for many years to come: how you resolve important issues when you hold strongly opposing views.
Had he handled the case the way the F.B.I. handled its investigations into the Clinton Foundation and Mr. Manafort over the summer, the argument goes, he would have endured criticism from Republicans in the future but would have preserved a larger principle that has guided cases involving both parties.
"Better" in this case means a lower interest rate, a longer term, a larger principle, or some combination of these.
Here too we have a shorthand way of pointing to a larger principle, and a goad to keep it in mind in our contemplation of "all that exists".
Trump is a symptom of a larger principle that echoes across human history: threats change cultures, leading to stronger rules, obedience to autocratic leaders and ― at worst ― intolerance.
