Sentence examples for cannot be sacrificed from inspiring English sources

There's an early section in my book, Thanking the Monkey, in which I argue for welfare reforms on behalf of the individual beings who are suffering right now, whose pitiful hope of some relief cannot be sacrificed for the cause.

"Our civil rights cannot be sacrificed for political purposes".

Our march toward equity and equality cannot be sacrificed.

Our fundamental rights cannot be sacrificed on the altar of the shabby EU-Turkey deal".

"Social justice cannot be sacrificed to legal technicalities," Mr Yánez says.

Turkey's prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, sought to reduce tensions with Moscow, saying Russia is Turkey's "friend and neighbour" and insisting relations cannot be "sacrificed to accidents of communication".

We cannot allow our courts, civil rights, religious liberties or basic freedoms to be sacrificed.

Therefore, as neither oxygen saturation nor glucose levels of the animals were monitored before they were sacrificed, one cannot entirely rule out such external factors influencing the amount of RNA and protein in the present study, although it seems unlikely.

Euripides's final play deals with the start of the Trojan war: the Greek generals assemble on the coast ready to set out across the sea to Asia, and they cannot do so until a child is sacrificed to ensure favourable winds.

But this cannot happen if local social services budgets are sacrificed.

We cannot stand back and watch while the wonders of this world are sacrificed to crass carelessness and short-termism.