Sentence examples for dear like from inspiring English sources

Lots of the principles that Mr Hitchens holds dear, like tolerance and justice, are secularised versions of religious ideas.

She doesn't buy into all the values many local food advocates hold dear, like cage-free eggs; limited use of herbicides, fertilizers and other chemicals; and small farms.

And as market mechanisms were unleashed into many aspects of society, institutions we hold dear, like local post offices, were allowed to wither.

He is twisting arms on issues he has long held dear, like slashing executive pay and increasing teaching requirements for professors — ideas that have long been met with considerable resistance from academia.

This old saw is routinely trotted out by politicians looking to give themselves cover when they are talking about cutting – oops, I mean "saving" – programs most of us hold dear, like Social Security or Medicare.

Yet it is also an exercise of freedom of expression to express offense at the way satire like Charlie Hebdo's characterizes something you hold dear – like your faith, your personhood, your gender, your sexuality, your race or ethnicity.

It's perhaps no wonder that Dearing likes to fly low.

In deference to norms held dear, the like won't be attempted here.

He left me to my own devices, sensing that these things made a difference to me, though they made none to him: "Yes, dear — if you like".

Imagined worlds moved quite out of my reach, seemed utterly pointless, not to mention a colossal human presumption: "Yes, dear — if you like".

Therefore, in skylarks, dear-enemy-like relationships can be established between unfamiliar individuals who share a common acoustic code.