"They swapped principle for power.
His conduct suggests that his statement that the Republicans "swapped principle for power" applies to himself as well.
It was those aspects of the Great Exhibition that deterred William Morris from entering, although he appeared to have swapped principle for pragmatism by the time its successor, the 1862 International Exhibition, opened in London.
Rather than try to shut down the government or hamstring the Republican leadership at every turn, as they previously did to get what they wanted during year-end negotiations, these conservatives, members of the so-called rebel class elected in 1994, have embraced the art of Washington politics, in many cases swapping principle for pragmatism.
"If he is unable to provide this information, it will simply lend credence to those who claim the Liberal Democrats have swapped their principles for ministerial red boxes and the chance to ride in ministerial cars".
Some speculate that Mr. Bashardost, a former planning minister and current member of Parliament, would be worth millions of dollars if he had swapped his principles for the political mainstream.
What if television kills traditional songs and festivals, or persuades people to swap ancient religious principles for the empty materialism glamorised in American soap operas?
Thus, the promoter swap experiments corroborate the principle that expression of operons was dependent on the fitness conveyed by the encoded enzyme to the environmental condition and was not due to some unexpected fixed functional relation (such as an unknown signaling pathway) between the DNA sequence of these nominally generic promoter regions and the environmental signal.
It may seem a bit of a stretch from tea to credit default swaps, but the principle is the same: when enormous private wealth goes unchecked, regular folks get hurt -- badly.
"It is taking us back to the old market principles of sharing swapping, bartering.
