In an apparent appeal to Republicans alienated by Mr. Trump's candidacy, he marveled at how far the party had strayed from the principles espoused by Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan.
This week, the official North Korean news agency released numerous provocative declarations, some old and some new, by the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, admonishing North Koreans not to stray from the principles of the Communist revolution.
In the first eighty years of the republic, the military has intervened four times to remove civilian governments that were thought to have lost control of the country or to have strayed from the principles of secularism or anti-Communism.
With the Florida Republican Party's desperate registration efforts — highlighted by retaining a firm whose principal, Nathan Sproul, has faced allegations of election misconduct — and the GOP's current difficulties in Florida over fraudulent registrations, one can only be aghast at how far the party of Lincoln has strayed from the principles of Lincoln.
In neither the Articles nor the Constitution did the founders stray from the principle, "deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed".
The same el-Sisi government is widely criticized for straying from the democratic principles laid out in the Arab Spring, and back to the generally authoritarian rule of ex-president Hosni Mubarak.
The report shows how far we have strayed from the core principles of science first identified by Robert Merton in 1942: universalism, disinterestedness, organised scepticism and – most notably and perhaps most surprisingly – communism.
Perhaps the coup leaders would execute the Caliph, on grounds of having strayed from the core principles of Islam, blaming everything on al-Baghdadi.
Mederer has no interest in straying from the purity laws.
But I am straying from the story.
Anyhoo, I'm straying from the topic.
