Sentence examples for in the name of principle from inspiring English sources
It's tempting to ascribe the complaints to an op-ed mentality to critics who fall back on politics to justify their involvement with anything so suspect as the entertainment industry or so frivolous as aesthetic pleasures, and the more extreme the aesthetic (as in the case of Scorsese's movie), the more righteous the response in the name of principle.
It's tempting to ascribe the complaints to an op-ed mentality — to critics who fall back on politics to justify their involvement with anything so suspect as the entertainment industry or so frivolous as aesthetic pleasures, and the more extreme the aesthetic (as in the case of Scorsese's movie), the more righteous the response in the name of principle.
But he wondered whether a life spent in the U.N., a system that exists in the name of principle yet survives by compromise, might not be especially cooling, and he said of Annan, "Remember that he spent from 1962 — forty years — in the machine, and he has been a consummate user of the machine as well as being part of it".
And in the name of principle this group (one majlis member calls it the "power in the shadow") has no qualms about bullying parliament or suborning the judiciary.Mr Ahmadinejad is part of this group, but its survival does not depend on his.
They are willing to inflict serious damage to dairy and other industries in the name of principle.
If necessary, this minority is willing to inflict serious damage on the economy in the name of "principle".
"It is easy to take offence at a foreign army entering an African palace... but could we just stand by and allow people to die... in the name of principles that disregard the cost in human life?" Le Républicain asked.
In court, Koh has challenged both republican and democratic administrations in the name of constitutional principle and the rule of law.
The Pope, in seeking to overturn this judgment, was doing so in the name of the principle of the sanctity of life, an essentially religious principle and was thus going far in the direction of turning Italy into a theocracy in which, if a law is not accepted by religion, it is not a law.
Only competent authorities, in conformity with the provision contained in Article 2(c), may constitute themselves as an internal operator in the name of the principle of free administration of public authorities in application of the subsidiarity principle set out in Article 5 of the EC Treaty.
