Sentence examples for small sacrifice for from inspiring English sources

A beating, he said, was "a small sacrifice for a boy and a great treat for a monk".

She must renew it every three months but considers that a small sacrifice for keeping her name.

It is no small sacrifice for a poor nation to shut down a source of cheap energy.

Democrats said the bill would save or create jobs for nearly 400,000 teachers and force millionaires to make a small sacrifice for the benefit of the nation.

The direction is also rather workmanlike, a shock given Wheatley's back catalogue, and there's an overriding sensation that this is his small sacrifice for the mainstream.

But considering where they came from, many said it was a small sacrifice for the chance to become a professional instead of a cabdriver or farmer.

Each dollar in taxes represented a smaller sacrifice for the rich than for the poor.

In exchange for a small sacrifice of material — his rook for a bishop and a pawn — Karpov gained an outpost for his knight on d6 that made it at least as powerful as a rook.

In return for a small sacrifice of material, he not only got nowhere, but quickly lost to Milov's whirlwind attack.

"We are talking about people who are making over $1 million to make a small sacrifice to pay for this war when our military families are making a huge sacrifice," said Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois.

It is an alarming fact that over the last two weeks, as details of Prism and the covert acquisition of phone records have been laid bare, politician after politician, on both sides of the Atlantic and from both sides of the left-right divide, has argued that the loss of a little liberty is a small sacrifice to make for security.