Sentence examples for principles for power from inspiring English sources

He added, "Secret deals to trade away principles for power is already the problem in Washington, it's not the solution".

This week's budget is the most unfair in my political lifetime, and the ease with which Nick Clegg has broken so many pre-election promises shows how much he has been willing to sacrifice his principles for power.

Like any smaller party, hovering over the Greens is a fear of selling out their principles for power – in fact the party have already been criticised for that.

International aid was viewed as an entitlement, and most Albanian intellectuals are corrupt both in the financial and ideological sense: eager to sell their ideas and principles for power and money.

There is nothing about the Gore endorsement that indicates that Dr. Dean has sacrificed principle for power.

Spilling beans and saying that the Bush folks have betrayed principle for power?

Of course, Mr. Wallace was not the first politician to trade core principle for power.

Speer's ambition made him willing to sacrifice principle for power.

His conduct suggests that his statement that the Republicans "swapped principle for power" applies to himself as well.

Critics say Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side who has been speaker for the last 15 years, is the symbol of all that is broken in state government, a man who long ago forsook principle for power.

That concern, that the party had sacrificed principle for power — and wound up with neither — is what put such focus on Mulcair's speech in advance of the vote.