Sentence examples for long-held principle from inspiring English sources

Those experiments in turn necessitated physicists' abandonment of the long-held principle of time-reversal invariance.

In so doing, Mr. Bush was throwing out the long-held principle of "mutual assured destruction" that has governed strategic doctrine.

"There is a very, very strong and long-held principle that collections are a public trust," Mr. Botwinick said, "not an asset".

But the leaders will never say this out loud, because this would run up against China's long-held principle of "noninterference" as well as to invite reprisals.

Those workers see the lack of job guarantees as violating the union's long-held principle of pattern bargaining, or winning the same terms at each Detroit auto company.

As the union has mounted a push to pass the contract, Ms. Weingarten has insisted that the bonuses are not strictly "merit pay," wanting to avoid the impression that the union sold out on a long-held principle.

Predictably, it has turned into a partisan squabble, with members of both parties abandoning their long-held principles.

Tories really should look to their long-held principles when deciding which electoral system the UK needs.

This holds that he has played most foully for re-election, sacrificing long-held principles and policies in order to secure the prize.Much of this seems true.

Is two in a million really a big enough threat to encourage us to abandon long-held principles of justice, fairness and liberty?

Isn't it nice when personal interests come to coincide with long-held principles, so that we can now bury our noses in the trough with clean consciences.