Sentence examples for highest of principles from inspiring English sources

And, as the Ellen Terry fiasco suggests, he was himself eminently Victorian: a man who invoked the highest of principles to justify the baser of self-delusions.

Whatever your feelings about the artistic merits of the mash-up as a form or the efficacy of modern copyright legislation, there's a far higher set of principles at stake here.

The appropriate response is to replace the current leaders by demanding their replacements uphold a higher set of principles that place the public interest above special interests.

The new paradigm is founded on the respect for autonomy and high ranking of principles and today represents one of the most important guides to reasoning in bioethics.

"He tried to leave it at the highest level of principle, and then he's roundly panned.

In them, he has seized the high ground of principle while deftly delivering a partisan stiletto.

But to make victory in the next election certain, it has to look beyond the solution of its immediate problems and return to the high ground of principle.

"It's a reversal of the administration's position, which makes it important, especially since they had elevated the idea of suspension [of uranium enrichment before talking] to such a high point of principle.

Well before high questions of principle are debated, however, there's the practical point of whether GDS and the ministerial backing it has are sufficient to keep up the momentum that the data agenda had in central government under Francis Maude and Hancock.

A resolution at the convention that effectively endorsed the Leap Manifesto — adopting it as a "high-level statement of principles" — carried with a clear majority.

The State Department, in coordination with other agencies will work to ensure these are a set of high-standards set of principles that emerging economies, as well as developed economies can adhere to.