Sentence examples for act of principle from inspiring English sources

It was an act of principle, and an extraordinarily courageous one.

Then it came to seem almost like an act of principle.

In the turmoil of the Red Scare, Mr. Schulberg's testimony was seen as a betrayal by many, an act of principle by others.

The concern, however, is that in the Bizarro World of American recrimination, every act of principle only furthers the perception that abusers are the real victims.

For him to have chosen at that moment to turn his back on his family would have been an act of principle and courage.

The public official who commits a misdemeanor is instantly elevated into a felon; the one who performs even a relatively trivial act of principle is immediately cast as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

One could of course explain that the world is cynical; that acts of state too often trump acts of principle; that some of the U.N.'s 192 member governments utterly fail to abide by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

These acts of principle and leadership are to be praised and emulated.

They can act out of principle, and potentially resign if it& 8217s dramatic enough — this just never happens.

Young people prefer issue-based politics to party politics, yet there are hardly any ideological politicians left, and those that do act out of principle or ideology are mercilessly mocked by the press.

The party he has formally left in order to see that pledge through as an independent indulged him in his act of reluctant principle by not standing a pro-expansion candidate against him.