abstract principle

People are more likely to demonstrate in favor of seizing a tangible opportunity than for an abstract principle.

And as far as political leaders go, their job is rarely to stand completely in behalf of one abstract principle.

An abstract principle called God, or Aum or any other impersonal formless all-inclusive Being?

Women have been known to reverence it, even as an abstract principle.

It is not a matter of knowing the abstract principle in which the broad river of general ideas may find its source.

The understanding is strong in a single abstract principle and with this lever moves mankind.

The abstract principle of non-restraint adopted at Lincoln and Hanwell was not enunciated.