Hartmann spent the war years in internal exile, refusing to allow his music to be published or performed in Nazi Germany, and it is easy to hear his later music as an expression of his firm and courageous personal principles.
A small but growing number of courageous teachers, principles and superintendents have begun to move away from tracking, pushing toward providing high-quality, challenging curriculum, with supports, for all children.
In each chapter, he is the courageous man of principle, a stout-hearted citizen up against the dimwitted, the wicked and the power-mad.
Was it a courageous act of principle, or the stupidest business decision ever?
His admirers construe this as a courageous adherence to unchanging principles, but there is another way of looking at it.
Disguised as a courageous, Kennedyesque statement of principle, the talk was really just an attempt to compete with the evolution-disdaining, religion-baiting Huckabee and get Baptists to concede that Mormons are Christians.
It will require serious commitment to constitutional principle, and courageous willingness to put devotion to the national interest above self-interest and party loyalty, for a Congress of the president's own party to initiate an impeachment inquiry.
They are normally masculine persons of integrity and principle - courageous, moral, tough, solid and self-sufficient, maverick characters (often with trusty sidekicks), possessing an independent and honorable attitude (but often characterized as slow-talking).
And they lived out their principles in concrete, courageous ways.
The watch was inscribed with the message, "In grateful appreciation for your courageous stand for Democratic American principles".
It was an act of principle, and an extraordinarily courageous one.
