Sentence examples for more important principles from inspiring English sources

Thus, only some of the more important principles of classification will be discussed.

But there are more important principles than that.

But there is a more important principle at stake.

There are exceptions, but these have to be "justified by some even more important principle".

But Bogdanor neglects a more important principle: whose rules are they, and for what purpose are they instituted?

In a considered reply, Mr. Blair added that he understood why some "hesitate before committing to conflict and to war," but he argued that an even more important principle was at stake.

The more important principle at work is whether governments in the Middle East and elsewhere will succeed in shaping or silencing different points of view by training missiles and bullets on journalists.

But for all the farce surrounding the question of Mr. Emanuel's residency, the elections board, whether or not it intended to, also affirmed a serious and more important principle with its ruling — that Washington is in fact an extension of the rest of the country, rather than some alien territory cloistered within it.

Facts had to become more important than principles.

After that vote, the two leading candidates were Victor Ponta and the candidate put forward by an unholy alliance of the PNL National Liberal Partyy) and the PDL Democratic Liberal Partyy), who until recently were sworn enemies, but decided that opportunism was more important than principles.

(NYT) THE DEBATES A QUESTION OF PARTICIPATION -- Gov. George W. Bush says politics just might be more important than principle in deciding whether to back bids by Ralph Nader and Patrick J. Buchanan to be allowed in this fall's presidential debates.