Sentence examples for big principles from inspiring English sources

But both camps claimed that big principles were at stake.

"If you insist on big principles, then you will miss the essential — the essential being putting Egypt back on track at whatever cost.

What is required is "to give life" to these big principles "everywhere in our country, especially in the most fragile places," she said.

It would mean giving up on some big principles, like a public plan to compete with private insurers, in return for what could be just a few Republican votes, a veneer of bipartisanship.

Since 23 June it has become a host of hugely important consequential questions about access, rights and rules, all of which involve big principles and have huge economic, political and cultural implications.

We have always embraced the big principles but once you go behind the big principles like governance, distribution and one league body, there were areas of major concerns.

He says there are two big liberal principles at play: protecting the innocent, and allowing free speech.

There was no big principle involved in his decision.

Obama gave up on a big principle, and Democrats showed — again — they can't win the message war.

McCain just about wrecked his presidential campaign standing up for a rational immigration bill, and it would seem only fair if some of the people who have been denouncing all the anti-immigrant pandering could reward him by jumping on his bandwagon.... Except that McCain's other big principle is staying the course in Iraq, if it takes the rest of the millennium.

Step back from what even EU officials were calling "arcane" details, though, and the big principle is this: the prime minister effectively stuck relations with the rest of Europe in the deep freeze in order to protect one sector of the economy.