Sentence examples for principles to defend from inspiring English sources

She said that those who think she must be abandoning her principles to defend the administration's environmental policy were wrong.

Her public speeches have developed a distinctive line of reasoning, adopting common law principles to defend the Human Rights Act and attack the government's expansion of secret court hearings.

That is a really important principle to defend.

Last fall, even though the issue was plainly hurting candidates like Senator Max Cleland, who lost his race in Georgia, Senate Democrats filibustered against the bill to create a Homeland Security Department, insisting it was a matter of principle to defend labor rights that President Bush wanted to curb.

Our principles implore us to defend the sovereignty of a nation under attack and preserve Ukraine's territorial integrity.

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While it is sometimes appropriate for lawyers to represent unpopular clients when a important principle is at issue, here the only principle he wishes to defend is discrimination and second-class citizenship for gay Americans".

What that shows is that debates over even very specific principles like these can end up grounding out — either the participants will end up defending their favored principles by appealing to those very principles (citing the book to defend the book) or appealing to other specific principles that the other side shares but gives a lower priority.

In the Laughton version, the principle Galileo fails to defend is the responsibility of the scientist to improve the human condition.

Both believe in the principle he wants to defend, but Mr Davis really believes in it.That is not to say, as some lazy pundits do, that Mr Cameron's Tories have few or no policies.

It does not mean we have to pretend we'd actually like them all to come here, or that this is a point of absolute principle we have to defend.