Sentence examples for gestures of principle from inspiring English sources

Britain, however, remains divided between naked self-interest and high‑minded gestures of principle.

It was possible to read Hitchens's action as a gesture of principle, but many who knew him saw it as a vicious act: he was "Snitchens".

If even a Labour reformer and moderniser, which Straw generally is – his book contains an imaginative proposal for putting the prime minister and cabinet under statutory authority – would get into bed with the Lib Dems only under extreme duress, then what of those in the party who might prefer to make a gesture of principle out of a refusal to govern with the Lib Dems.

Zweig tried to justify his silence, writing in his memoir, "I hate emotional public gestures on principle," and adding that he didn't want to make trouble for Richard Strauss, just before the première of their opera.

It is more the tradition in other political cultures to resign or to make a gesture of real principle.

[Russia] won't send him home as a gesture of goodwill or a matter of principle, as Kerry seems to hope.

In the kind of world in which "Strip" unfolds, this gesture is enough to make him a man of principle.

The gesture cost him an untold amount of money but consolidated his reputation as a man of principle, especially among younger war protesters.

Out of principle?

As a matter of principle.

The politics of principle.