Sentence examples for high-minded principles from inspiring English sources
Then again, high-minded principles and dry realism have never been enough.
We like to think of our nation's founders as men with unwavering fealty to high-minded principles.
The demand to phase out Social Security is supposedly motivated by high-minded principles, such as "freedom" (the freedom to choose among a bewildering array of mutual funds).
Drop any mention of the high-minded principles you announced at the beginning of your term, such as safety and a culture that puts people first.
For some reason, the Republicans have been far less vocal about their high-minded principles with Mr. Trump in the White House.
Despite high-minded principles, the published literature reflects the fact that many researchers do not, left to their own devices, rush to share data.
The whole thing makes particularly fascinating reading when you compare it to the way that Republican billionaires and bundlers are generally treated by the press: As a cynical, self-interested lot whose ruthless quest for political quid pro quos contrasts with the high-minded principle of Democratic check-writers and bundlers, who supposedly give without asking for anything in return.
Ultimately the problem is one of incentives: Our current system puts too much emphasis on individual achievement and too often penalizes high-minded principle.
His high-minded principle applied to defending freedom of the press, but not to criticizing its abuse.
Yet the need for another £400m is a reminder of how far the Co-op Bank fell short of its high-minded "ethical" principles even before it bothered to write them down.
WASHINGTON -- Two Democratic congressmen are investigating whether the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's tenacious attack on a key anti-bribery statute has less to do with high-minded economic principles and more to do with the fact that nearly one in four board members of the Chamber's "legal reform" arm represents a company that has been caught up in a bribery investigation itself.
