An improved stress-measuring technique based on the cantilever bending principle is presented.
The pressures that drove the accounting firms to bend their principles are clear enough.
But Mr. Norquist seemed to bend his principles to issue the endorsement, perhaps to maintain his relevance in tax debates.
The compromises of power were not for him; he "would not bend his principles," wrote Adams, "for the power brokers in the Labour party, nor for the media, nor even for the electorate".
Livingstone may have been a tough negotiator for London, but part of his approach was to bend his principles and act in a way friendly to whoever was bringing big investment into London.
The authors see America's decline as real, continuing and yet reversible, provided American leaders apply human agency, not to bend timeless principles of economic behavior but to learn from them.
He is an unlikely hero for a corrupt age, when those who desire advancement quickly learn to bend their principles and their beliefs to suit the prevailing wind, but it is precisely his solid decency and sense of honour that make him stand out in a world of flattery and hypocrisy.
A good thing to say, and many a president of the Elks, the Odd Fellows, the Moose, the Knights of Pythias, and the Ancient and Mystic Order of Hoot Owls has said something similar: We will not bend our principles so as to please people we didn't like in the first place.
When the Mother Superior replied, "Yes," Raymond exclaimed: "Sister Denise, your house is on fire!" An associate of Raymond Dicaire, Gilles Mass, advised the nuns to bend their principles and resort to some trickery.
