Sentence examples for action in the name of from inspiring English sources

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Rugby players, boxers and American footballers have all been rushed back into action in the name of success, but they do not always remember their sacrifices.

To take military action in the name of the British public and not fully inform the public about the legal basis for doing so is undemocratic".

The Republican candidates have repudiated Mr. Bush's action in the name of ideological consistency, "but sometimes circumstances get in the way of philosophy," he told a national convention of auto dealers last month.

Although the supreme court decision didn't do away with affirmative action, in the name of fairness it placed more impediments in the way of universities attempting to make their admissions processes more fair.

Under the Bush administration, both the Pentagon and the State Department were intensely wary of signing up to anything that might bind them to take draconian action in the name of humanity.Indeed, R2P was a part of a much broader 2005 reform of the United Nations that George Bush first sought to weaken, then only reluctantly accepted.

Liberal interventionists, if you recall, were people like myself for whom the sight in the 1990s of hundreds of thousands of European Muslims processed through Serbian concentration camps, or killed in them, left little doubt of the merits, indeed the necessity, of U.S. military action in the name of the human dignity that only open societies afford.

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Men - even good men - are driven to the most despicable actions in the name of honour.

Meanwhile, actions in the name of human rights have become regular occurrences.

"This is the same kind of mentality which provokes people to take violent actions in the name of God.

Kinsey's bisexuality and his extreme actions in the name of research made for a jumble of internal contradictions.

We have already seen how inadequate procedures in existing law allow sweeping and erroneous enforcement actions in the name of protecting intellectual property.

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