Sentence examples for little principles from inspiring English sources

But there's a fine line between sharing and caring so much about signing a deal that we abandon what little principles we have left, going all out to win friends without thought for the long-term consequences.

There are certain little principles and guides for doing it but I don't know exactly what they are.

Saturating the movie with jazz and classical music, alcohol and sex, deceptions and witticisms, Chabrol depicts an exuberant student milieu of reckless play and dangerous gambles with the future in the interest of instant pleasures — and his vision of young people on the loose, with as little principle in their private lives as in their political sympathies, was considered scandalous.

Too few media organizations have too much power and are operating with too little ethical principles.

Look at John McDonnell's strong speech on the economy, which does promise so much I would support, and little in principle I would disagree with – from a higher minimum wage, to taxing the avoiders and investing in industry.

Moreover, Eastwood rather too obviously positions his subject in moral terms: Hoover objects to extended batterings of anarchists; he doesn't seem to mind an African American stenographer; he is dusted with a little more principle than is given to Richard Nixon.

For instance, behavitives seem to be a heterogeneous bunch with little unifying principle.

To Ferriss's advice, I've added the "sit a little longer" principle.

"There is little in principle against the distribution of religious works," Guenter Krings, vice chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, told the Rheinische Post newspaper, but added that this depended on the distributor.

There is also a relatively little discussed principle of parental responsibility, which gives parents responsibility for the welfare of their children and therefore a (limited) right to be involved in children's decisions, where it is relevant and necessary to their role as parents, depending on the child's state of development and dependency (see Article 3 2 above and Article 18 1.

It's not about the principle... well, it's a little about the principle -- losing out on an audition could translate to loss of future opportunities, money in my pocket, not to mention my pension and health benefits.