The remainder of the evening savors the secret ambush of Edward's relatives as they try to bend principles and justify their greed.
Levin's and Bailyn's most common response to critics has been that anyone who truly means to "engage the world" - the phrase is a mantra for Yale-NUS apologists - must be willing to bend principles such as those in Yale's Freedom of Expression statement, out of sensitivity to our Singaporean partners' values.
An improved stress-measuring technique based on the cantilever bending principle is presented.
Nor had the willful and extremely individualistic effort of the French encyclopaedists Diderot and d'Alembert done more than confuse the issue, for they had bent the principles of encyclopaedia making to their own purposes.
The pressures that drove the accounting firms to bend their principles are clear enough.
D'Antoni is bending his principles, but he is not about to shatter them.
But Mr. Norquist seemed to bend his principles to issue the endorsement, perhaps to maintain his relevance in tax debates.
A few of them, amazingly, complained that Isis was not radical enough – that it was bending its principles for political reasons.
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.
