Sentence examples for principles in the name of from inspiring English sources

Many voters were plainly put off by Newt Gingrich's relentless personal and political assaults on Clinton and Clintonn, the one Democrat willing to sacrifice practically anything (possibly including his principles) in the name of victory, brought the party briefly out of the woods by running against Republican extremism.

At Abu Ghraib, and in far too many theatres of our post-9/11 wars, we compounded the wound that bin Laden and Al Qaeda inflicted on us ten-years ago, with self-inflicted wounds, time and again abandoning our own best principles in the name of defending them.

The recent discovery by Human Rights Watch in archives in Tripoli of documents that appear to detail how the United States and Britain handed over suspects to Muammar el-Qaddafi's torturers again underscores the folly of sacrificing our principles in the name of security.

The piece raises important questions about the Californian Ideology and how it influences policy — and about the consequences of sacrificing principles in the name of pragmatism.

It is based on a body of knowledge constructed over the course of this century and sustained by moral and expert authority, and it uses these to justify the act of imposition of Western-based principles in the name of the best interests of the child.

Now that the Bush Administration, mercifully, has come to an end, details are beginning to emerge about just how much that Administration compromised cherished American principles in the name of "national security".

"The president doesn't want U.S. credibility to be sullied by Russia's dishonesty and willingness to sacrifice principle in the name of convenience," Mr. Earnest added.

The animated joy of wandering the grounds at the National Tennis Center in search of first-week excitement has been replaced by a protect-the-biggies principle in the name of balance and fairness.

How to explain this enigmatic country to outsiders a matter of some urgency these days as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pursues his project of realigning Turkey away from Western principles (always in the name of democracy and human rights).

These documents – and indeed the opening of the full archive of the pontificate of Pius XII in 2013 – do demand that the Jewish community re-evaluate the actions of Pius XII in accordance with the Jewish principle given in the name of Hillel, the leading teacher of the Jewish community at the time of Jesus: Do not judge others until you have found yourself in their position.

The dangers posed to freedom do not need to be spelled out when autocrats brush aside the fundamental principles of democracy in the name of 'national emergency,'publicic order' and 'crisis measures'," said commentator Aron Shaviv.