Sentence examples for our principles on from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — Senator John McCain said Thursday that Republicans had lost the midterm elections because "we abandoned our principles" on fiscal policy and government restraint, inviting a backlash from Americans over what they saw as widespread hypocrisy.

We are too isolated to disregard the longer term consequences of our relations with our largest neighbour, and not remote enough to remain virtuously wedded to our principles on this issue.

We've always employed people, because of our principles on animal testing, who were politically aware, including animal rights activists," says Simon Constantine, head of buying at Lush and son of co-founder and boss Mark Constantine.

The man who once pointedly withheld his endorsement of the Republican presidential nominee, who called a statement of Mr. Trump's "the textbook definition of a racist comment," who questioned whether Mr. Trump shared his party's "values and our principles on limited government, the proper role of the executive, adherence to the Constitution," has suddenly gone taciturn.

Basing our notions of justice on overgeneralizations about classifications like age is ill advised, as is basing our principles of law on a world view.

That's the only way we can deliver on our principles of equality, social justice and social mobility.

Our tribal political affiliations lead us to defend personalities or policies that we ought, based on our principles, to condemn.

People have been told too often that they have to choose effectively between their heads and their hearts, and that there is a choice to be made, that if you want Labour to be re-elected we somehow have to ditch our principles, perhaps on public services, the welfare bill, whatever it might be.

"We have to retain our principles based on rights and humanity," he said.

He added: "The first thing we should stick with is our core principles on reform, but we also have to stick with, and show our support for, our Health Secretary".

8) We affirm our intention to hold on to our beliefs and values, to speak out for what is right and against what is wrong based on our principles, whether that be on matters such as the securitisation of society, corporate hegemony, war and peace, economic exploitation, social and moral issues in society, nationalism and racism.