Sentence examples for for the sake of the principle from inspiring English sources

But I chose to venture my life for the sake of the principle.

It is worth sacrificing another of the EU's principles that is in any case frequently violated, namely the principle of free movement of workers, for the sake of this principle of solidarity.

"For their sake, and for the sake of the plant's safety".

It must, for Ms. Matsukawa's sake and for the sake of the world orchestral scene.

A country founded on racist principles will find it increasingly difficult to address such a divisive issue, but it must be done for the sake of the future.

Calling Yiannopoulos "vile" and "a reprehensible person," Strangio wrote, "I don't believe in protecting principle for the sake of principle in all cases.

"I recognized, now," he writes, "that I had dishonored our mother for the sake of a lonely principle, and since those years I have been struggling with what I thought had been vital in that principle".

Would we risk everything for the sake of principle and decency?

It is difficult to name many other public figures who have been willing to endure pain — even mere political pain — for the sake of honor or principle.

He acted not as we see him in Spielberg's "Lincoln," prepared to jettison propriety for the sake of principle, but as someone scrupulously legalistic.

Webster's defines a martyr as "a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle".