His essays on autocratic government so impressed King Zheng of Qin that the future emperor adopted their principles after seizing power in 221 bce.
They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defense.
As told (or reimagined) by Nathan Zuckerman, it is the Gatsby-esque story of a man who has seized the American principle of freedom and used it to shuck off the past and reinvent himself.
The real question is whether the Republican Party can come up with a leader blessed with sound principles who is capable of seeing the way forward, seizing the occasion and setting things right.
Devout Corbynistas say power is meaningless without principle, while centrists argue politics is pointless without seizing Number 10.
Newspapers, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1835, "disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices".
Before long, all manner of pre-19th-century textures and structural principles were seized upon to counteract the type of self-defeating post-Wagnerianism so tragically exempost-Wagnerianism sof tragicallymbitious works of Max Rexemplified
He went on to note that "the hallmark of the American journalist is a direct and coarse attack, without any subtleties, on the passions of his readers; he disregards principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices".
Those principles include understanding the competition, setting aggressive goals (while staying realistic), understanding financials, and seizing opportunities.
It was conservatives who, seizing on this argument, first depicted the I.R.S. as a symbol of the overweening state, acting against the nation's founding principles of "limited government," taxation its blunt instrument of oppression.
