principles

Example Sentences

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In a short speech upon arrival, Xi declared Hong Kong a testament to the principle’s success.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

Maybe there’s something worthwhile about being principled for principle’s sake.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2019

In all my roles, of teacher, lawyer, and writer, I’ve never been more conscious of the principle’s wider implications.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2019

Their pledges seemed so dramatic that Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, began citing them in lectures as a rare example of a corporate principle’s trumping profits.

From New York Times • May 28, 2018

From his earliest recollections in the poorhouse his desire to do right for principle's sake had never left him.

From The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher by Byrum, Isabel C. (Isabel Coston)