Sentence examples for substantial sacrifice from inspiring English sources

At 24, he will again try to be the player worthy of the substantial sacrifice San Diego made -- giving up two No. 1 draft picks, a No. 2 pick, the wide receiver/kick returner Eric Metcalf and linebacker Patrick Sapp -- to move up one position and select him with the second overall choice in the 1998 draft.

Setting aside seats for women would require male members of Parliament to give up about 180 seats in the lower house — a substantial sacrifice of power in an institution that has seen female prime ministers and female speakers, but few female members.

Each of the boys was accompanied by one parent, a substantial sacrifice, since all three left their jobs to join their sons, and none are wealthy: Piero's father is an auto-body mechanic, Gianluca's a truck driver, and Ignazio's mother owns a pizzeria that her 25-year-old daughter is running in her absence.

But giving up the idea that practical wisdom is the heart of all the virtues, as Adams has to do, is a substantial sacrifice, as Kamtekar (2010) argues.

Mattingly sounded as if he is prepared to make an even more substantial sacrifice Thursday, when the Dodgers open a four-game series against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

There are many cases in which realizing one's basic moral duties in no more than a minimally sufficient way may in practice require sustained attentiveness over a long period of time, as well as intensive effort and substantial sacrifice of self-centred activity.

The writer of Leviticus states that the poor are required to make less substantial sacrifices than the rich (Leviticus 5 7; 11; 14:21).

They claim the growth comes from parents on low incomes and ethnic minority families who are making substantial sacrifices to give their children extra academic help.

But when the policy was introduced two years ago a highly experienced housing activist told me to expect a lot of hard-up families to make substantial sacrifices in order to stay put.

His continued denial of the morass of the Iraq war and insistence that the Vietnam War "could have been won" I attributed to psychological factors — that is, an inability to recognize that his substantial sacrifices were for naught.

The army had made "substantial sacrifices" to protect the country against terrorism, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a statement, adding, "Such cowardly acts by terrorists cannot deter the morale of our armed forces".