Sentence examples for the name of principles from inspiring English sources

We always act in the name of principles, not in our own interests.

"It is easy to take offence at a foreign army entering an African palace... but could we just stand by and allow people to die... in the name of principles that disregard the cost in human life?" Le Républicain asked.

It's tempting to ascribe the complaints to an op-ed mentality to critics who fall back on politics to justify their involvement with anything so suspect as the entertainment industry or so frivolous as aesthetic pleasures, and the more extreme the aesthetic (as in the case of Scorsese's movie), the more righteous the response in the name of principle.

It's tempting to ascribe the complaints to an op-ed mentality — to critics who fall back on politics to justify their involvement with anything so suspect as the entertainment industry or so frivolous as aesthetic pleasures, and the more extreme the aesthetic (as in the case of Scorsese's movie), the more righteous the response in the name of principle.

But he wondered whether a life spent in the U.N., a system that exists in the name of principle yet survives by compromise, might not be especially cooling, and he said of Annan, "Remember that he spent from 1962 — forty years — in the machine, and he has been a consummate user of the machine as well as being part of it".

And in the name of principle this group (one majlis member calls it the "power in the shadow") has no qualms about bullying parliament or suborning the judiciary.Mr Ahmadinejad is part of this group, but its survival does not depend on his.

If necessary, this minority is willing to inflict serious damage on the economy in the name of "principle".

They are willing to inflict serious damage to dairy and other industries in the name of principle.

In the name of general principles such as tradition, order, authority and moderation, they seek to preserve particular relations of power.

Suppose you directed taxpayer dollars through back channels, disguised as gifts from private benefactors and foundations, to organizations that operated internationally, and that reached out to groups in other countries in the name of the principles you believe in.

He's a dinosaur who awakens, emerging out of the past to blast away — in the name of enduring principles — at present-day injustices with the brute force of old-time injustices.