Sentence examples for old-fashioned principles from inspiring English sources

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Old-fashioned principles, of scouting, team-building and astute management, still play a part in Bilic's brave new world.

Although designers concentrated more this season on old-fashioned principles like line and proportion, they didn't ignore the real bread and butter.

And there is the politically defiant Mitkau priest, Pastor Brahms, who is revealed to be part of an underground resistance group: "The pastor . . . was a doctrinarian who sometimes, when something like extra sausage was being considered, unexpectedly came out with very old-fashioned principles".

It was old-fashioned principles and love that made them do it.

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The contrary, idealist view is that it is a debasement of the old-fashioned principle that creative work is its own award.

But the biggest factor is the advantage that incumbency provides in the Senate, and the use he has made of it.The chamber operates on the old-fashioned principle of seniority.

Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice, 2006 "Alston is pretty much unique in British contemporary dance for his adherence to the old-fashioned principle of welding steps to music, particularly classical music".

Their success was built on an old-fashioned principle delivered by modern means: the exchanging of bootlegs over millions of megabytes, the spread of word of mouth via ADSL.

On this -- MR. GORE I think one of the key points in foreign policy and national security policy is the need to re-establish the old-fashioned principle that politics ought to stop at the water's edge.

This may mark me as a Rodgers and Hammerstein junkie, but I can't help feeling that the fustiness lies with Kander and Ebb, whose music and lyrics operate on the old-fashioned principle that every song should be a showstopper, regardless of whether the show deserves to be stopped.

The techniques may be relatively new, but they are based on some old-fashioned political principles, according to Zachary Moffatt, the digital director for the Romney campaign.

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