When I hire now, I'm usually interested in people who have been fired for principle.
Although Marggraf noted the weight increase upon the oxidation of phosphorus to form phosphates, he remained the last eminent German adherent of the phlogiston theory, which postulated that a "fire principle" was lost during the combustion or oxidation of substances.
Ms. Evansgardner said her husband, most of all, was fired up by principle.
Many in the political world expected that Mr. Turner's seat would be on the chopping block, under the political equivalent of the last-hired, first-fired principle.
It may well be that the consultants are playing safe on the old "No-one gets fired for buying IBM" principle.
Many of his MPs were so fired up they placed principle ahead of party.
An Alabama corporal referred in his diary to the Confederacy's struggle for "the same principles which fired the hearts of our ancestors in the revolutionary struggle".
She will have to campaign on Tea Party ideas if she wants Tea Party support, Ms. Carender said, adding, "And if she were elected, she'd have to govern on those principles or be fired".
Like Gaitskell, Mr Obama now stands accused by his own party's bitter progressives of lacking fire, fight, principle and backbone.
Some of the fire, fight, principle and backbone that has gone missing since the inspiring campaign of 2008 has to become visible again.
At the time that Josiah Wedgwood's "A Man and a Brother" cameos were being fired in his kilns, three great principles were firing up on the other side of the Channel.
