Sentence examples for in principle and in pursuit from inspiring English sources
But it is the right strategy — in principle and in pursuit of America's national interests.
The development of the intelligent green building project (IGBP) is the pursuit of a business strategy of an enterprise in principle and the launch of the project in practice.
Surely we should not ruin lives and sacrifice our principles in pursuit of meaningless, low-level drug cases.
You cannot simultaneously fight wars based on liberty, equality and freedom, while at the same time dismissing those same principles in pursuit of victory.
Mr. Bolton's criticisms reflect a growing unease among some conservatives that a weakened White House chastened by the war in Iraq is abandoning core principles in pursuit of a more moderate policy of negotiations.
This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
These people clearly have an ability to effectively court the opportunities and relationships they want in their lives, and when observed closely they do seem to use similar strategies and principles in their pursuits.
I tend to side with the Navigators who not only have principles, but will compromise in pursuit of those principles.
Second, like Kant, Rawls regards moral principles as the imposition of reasonable constraints on individuals' rational deliberations and choices in pursuit of their interests.
"We must be pragmatic and agile in pursuit of our human rights agenda, not compromising on our principles, but doing what is most likely to make them real," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a wide-ranging address at Georgetown University.
