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  • She had principles and morals, and she was not ashamed of them, even though it must have taken all the courage she could muster to hold fast.   (source)
    principles = basic rules or beliefs
  • But Alyss, you must work hard to develop it according to the guiding principles of the Heart dynasty-love, justice, and duty to the people.   (source)
  • If he used the same principle as with the arrows ….   (source)
    principle = fundamental concept
  • It's the principle of the thing, Jess.   (source)
    principle = basic moral belief (about what is right and wrong)
  • The sacred principles of Ingsoc.   (source)
    principles = basic rules or beliefs
  • Hain't you got no principle at all?   (source)
    principle = basic moral beliefs (beliefs about what is right and wrong that guide behavior)
  • "Matter of principle.†   (source)
  • John Sawtelle had drilled the principles of animal husbandry into both his sons.†   (source)
  • The physics principles behind the three-body problem are very simple.†   (source)
  • A portion of the grounds of the Pondicherry Botanical Garden was made available rent-free for an exciting business opportunity and—lo and behold—India had a brand new zoo, designed and run according to the most modern, biologically sound principles.†   (source)
  • Because Da Vinci was a big fan of feminine principles, he made Mona Lisa look more majestic from the left than the right.†   (source)
  • Crouch's principles might've been good in the beginning — I wouldn't know.†   (source)
  • It's supposed to make it easier for them to change their allegiance from family to faction—to embrace the principle "faction before blood.†   (source)
  • Her favorite ice cream flavor (she said she refuses to eat low-fat frozen yogurt on principle alone) is Cherry Garcia.†   (source)
  • The new regime will maintain the utmost respect for principles, both Islamic and democratic.†   (source)
  • Surely you can demonstrate the principles involved!†   (source)
  • Plus, it's the principle of the thing."†   (source)
  • A woman who encountered him when he was a hearing officer for the Savannah Housing Authority remembered him as being highly principled.†   (source)
  • Much larger than Heisenberg's principle or Godel's theorem, which everybody rattles on about.†   (source)
  • He said, "Well, sure, in principle.†   (source)
  • Not that we'd ever done anything, it was the principle of the thing.†   (source)
  • It's the principle of the thing.†   (source)
  • The Principles of Mechanics†   (source)
  • It's called the principle of favorability.†   (source)
  • It works on the same principle, but you have to be very careful.†   (source)
  • Mai appears to understand the principle of absorption.†   (source)
  • I would certainly be criticized for letting my family relationships interfere with my political principles.†   (source)
  • But really, he was a hobby of Jack's, living proof of some leveling principle he had pursued through the years.†   (source)
  • So I spit in my hand, just a little drop, but Freak says it doesn't matter how much, a single molecule would work, because it's the principle of the thing.†   (source)
  • But on one point there was general agreement—the active principle in that medicine had been an old woman with one leg.†   (source)
  • Same principle, but I came up with an improvement: submerge the RTG.†   (source)
  • It's one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.†   (source)
  • I wished I could walk with her, mimic the principal and the way he always started out a meeting in the auditorium: "Your principal is your pal with principles!"†   (source)
  • It was hardly past noon but he was issued a beer on principle, and within minutes the man was telling his story.†   (source)
  • How could he doubt her, how could he mean to behave this way, contrary to the principle that had always governed his treatment of others—his sense of decency.†   (source)
  • The same principles apply here that applied to the era of John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.†   (source)
  • Never mind that this principle didn't hold true in her own family.†   (source)
  • Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.†   (source)
  • Thus the planet Vogsphere whiled away the unhappy millennia until the Vogons suddenly discovered the principles of interstellar travel.†   (source)
  • Mrs. van Daan agreed with her, but felt it was wrong as a matter of principle to let youngsters read books written for adults.†   (source)
  • Terribly high principles.'†   (source)
  • Because as soon as Violet saw the flickering reflection, she remembered the scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light.†   (source)
  • Growing organic food was a way to live their principles and not just talk about them.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if he had time the principles of this device could be unravelled, but for now he would have to improvise.†   (source)
  • She's always said that when sovereignty is vested in a single person whose right to rule is hereditary, the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community are irrevocably lost.†   (source)
  • He was not sure about other places and so avoided them on general principle.†   (source)
  • You're going to, if only on the principle that I'm asking you to do it.†   (source)
  • Though nearly all were Muslim, nationalism rather than religion tended to be their primary motive and organizing principle.†   (source)
  • As a grown man, I understand now, understand how her Christian principles and trust in God kept her going through all her life's battles, but as a boy, my faith was not that strong.†   (source)
  • Though I do have to say it seems an odd talent for someone who just on general principles refuses to talk.†   (source)
  • The author had recast the principles of physics into basic homilies to remind people of self-defeating behavioral patterns.†   (source)
  • After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.†   (source)
  • He persuaded his wife to take a more detached view of the question, who is Michael Oher? and Leigh Anne agreed, at least in principle.†   (source)
  • The execution of my duties will be swift and violent when required, yet guided by the very principles I serve to defend.†   (source)
  • The real hero is Abraham Lincoln and the principles for which he lived — and died: freedom and equal rights for all Americans.†   (source)
  • Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design.†   (source)
  • This principle also applies to other scary favorites, such as ghosts and doppelgangers (ghost doubles or evil twins).†   (source)
  • She was a timely present for Mrs. Garner who had lost Baby Suggs to her husband's high principles.†   (source)
  • "Doug Swieteck," Mr. Ferris said, "do you know the basic principle of physical science?"†   (source)
  • "It's the principle of the thing," Dad replied.†   (source)
  • Their principles were in their feet.†   (source)
  • It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.†   (source)
  • For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen.†   (source)
  • It's the principle…"†   (source)
  • She would die pure, her principles intact, society shunned.†   (source)
  • All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography.†   (source)
  • "The same principle," Zia agreed.†   (source)
  • Dora, will you teach Sophie the principles of Air magic?†   (source)
  • He cleared his throat before he read aloud: "I hereby render unconditional obedience to the Circle and its principles… .†   (source)
  • There, that's all my high principles amount to.†   (source)
  • I didn't discuss my specific religion in my lecture because I wanted to talk about universal principles that apply to all faiths—to share things I had learned through my relationships with people.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, they ally themselves with the ruling classes in capital and industry and maintain the capitalist principle, on the other they preach socialism.†   (source)
  • But you gotta admit, rules and principles are simpler than relationships.†   (source)
  • "I figured out the basic principles of what it was after I'd seen it.†   (source)
  • His admission into the Arcanum contingent upon proof that he has mastered the basic principles of sympathy.†   (source)
  • "You know, the principle of the thing.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino already realized how completely he would repudiate the memory of that irredeemable woman, and he thought he knew why: only a person without principles could be so complaisant toward grief.†   (source)
  • Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.†   (source)
  • From there, I applied the same principle to all my classes.†   (source)
  • I stood there like an idiot for a second, not quite able to admit that I wasn't having any lasting effect against scientific principles.†   (source)
  • Oh, the laws of physics and of logic — the number system — the principle of algebraic substitution.†   (source)
  • In the face of these it was best to move quickly and without reservations, as Horace himself did as a matter of principle.†   (source)
  • In principle, Empedocles was right.†   (source)
  • Buddy had never skied before either, but he said that the elementary principles were quite simple, and as he'd often watched the ski instructors and their pupils he could teach me all I'd need to know.†   (source)
  • The preacher's daughter was among the local campaign leaders of the plebiscite movement, which sought a ballot on tie question of the creation of a regional assembly for the Bay Area, with members elected on the principle of one person one vote, regardless of where one came from.†   (source)
  • Has he lost all his principles?†   (source)
  • We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.†   (source)
  • Farmer replied, in effect, that it made no sense for the captain to apply principles of constitutional law in a country that at the moment had no functioning legal system.†   (source)
  • In theory, it was an assistance project that built on the principle of offering help for self-help, and it was supposed to give the regimes in the East the opportunity to restructure their economies.†   (source)
  • What's the use of principles if you have to be dead to keep them?†   (source)
  • What with Japanese industriousness and high-tech culture and the market principles that the Denny's chain is always pursuing, it shouldn't be that hard to get crispy toast, don't you think?†   (source)
  • Naturally, he countered with Capo Ferro which surprised the man in black, but he defended well, quickly shifting out of Agrippa and taking the attack himself, using the principles of Thibault.†   (source)
  • At both those skills she excelled, and although she had never succeeded at initiating contact with the mind of another, she was thoroughly familiar with the principles involved.†   (source)
  • However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.†   (source)
  • As he lifted his gaze, he considered a mathematical principle that surely his teacher already knew: If two people have the same secret, it's not a secret anymore.†   (source)
  • As a Christian can be a Baptist, a Catholic, or a Lutheran, one Moslem's individual set of principles can vary widely from another's.†   (source)
  • The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.†   (source)
  • "What principle?" said Grandmere.†   (source)
  • Scholars do not, on principle, believe in the supernatural.†   (source)
  • The tank worked on the same principle as a sliding cash drawer in a teller's window.†   (source)
  • One council member even asked if they should forgo a formal vote and simply agree in principle to approve the idea.†   (source)
  • There are roses everywhere—overflowing their trays, stashed in corners, a few of them even scattered across the ground, petals trampled—and if you didn't know that there was actually an organizing principle to all of it, and a purpose, you would just think that someone had set off some kind of a rose bomb.†   (source)
  • "It's the principle of the thing," Kristy replied, piling more shrimp on her tray by the handful, "and no, I can't."†   (source)
  • I don't mean to go back on my principles.†   (source)
  • She couldn't eat here, not because she was a vegetarian-on-principle kind of person, but because she was vegetarian-because-she-didn't ——want-to-feel-sick kind of person.†   (source)
  • I thought a lot about friendship this month, and I tried to come up with the principles that define friendship.†   (source)
  • The course was called Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball, and the final grade was based on a single exam that had twenty questions.†   (source)
  • The racialism was unabashed; the three main Dorms had organizing principles allegedly instituted by the counselors, who assigned housing.†   (source)
  • The magus knew Archimedes's principle as well as I did.†   (source)
  • It was a new principle, something unexpected that cropped up.†   (source)
  • (reading from the history textbook)"Napoleon and the principle of equality."†   (source)
  • True to his principles, he had refused to ride the donkey or climb up on the wagon seat beside Lippy.†   (source)
  • The movement should adhere to these principles: Strive to build broad coalitions across liberal and conservative lines.†   (source)
  • Sand was used to help slow down the sled at the end of the ride to keep it from crashing, a technique based on the principle of friction.†   (source)
  • Adam lived by his faith and by his principles and he did not compromise, period.†   (source)
  • I emphasized our superior communist system and Chairman Mao's valued principles.†   (source)
  • Your noble work follows the highest principles of Islam, to tend to the poor and sick.†   (source)
  • Without realizing it, they were discovering the principles of torque.†   (source)
  • A girl with principles?†   (source)
  • Vasil probably did not know that he had intuited one of the fundamental principles of military training; in particular, Marine training.†   (source)
  • You're not gathering information in any way that violates Communist Party principles, are you?†   (source)
  • "We calls 'em principles," said Tummeler, referring to the steam-belching vehicle in which they traveled.†   (source)
  • Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn't opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess.†   (source)
  • Clara was incapable of braiding Blanca's hair for school, a task she entrusted to Ferula or Nana, but she had a wonderful relationship with her based on the same principles as the relationship she had had with Nivea.†   (source)
  • There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately.†   (source)
  • If girls do not stray from these principles, they will grow into virtuous women.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the same principle didn't apply to multiple-choice tests.†   (source)
  • That was a ruling principle behind the hunts, the collection of bright, beautiful, talented women, and eventually the long string of murders.†   (source)
  • There are no overarching principles that Zayd or any of his peers seems to embrace.†   (source)
  • He had acted against his principles.†   (source)
  • "I don't know whether you're familiar with the principles of European back-to-back arbitrage?"†   (source)
  • He'd brought Jeffcoate's Principles of Gynaecology to the table, and it bristled with bookmarks.†   (source)
  • It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think.†   (source)
  • Not necessarily the Christianity part, but the whole principle.†   (source)
  • Well, they try to deduce all of mathematics from simple logical principles and show that mathematics is really based on logic.†   (source)
  • Sand was used to help slow down the sled at the end of the ride to keep it from crashing, a technique based on the principle of friction.†   (source)
  • Jake's principled defense of his dead client's last will, as well as his somewhat cocky belief that the trial should be held in Clanton, in his courtroom, was severely shaken by a tragedy that occurred later that night in an ice storm near the town of Lake Village, in the southern part of Ford County.†   (source)
  • As a teenager, I decided fitting in at school and in life was worth sacrificing some principles.†   (source)
  • Was that also what Rinehart was, a principle of hope for which they gladly paid?†   (source)
  • Besides, he wanted to turn the fleet loose to burn every principle town along the New England coast.†   (source)
  • Not on principle.†   (source)
  • I believe that to him those rusted, pitted hammers, rasps and crowbars not only remind him of the first grown man who ever treated him with any kindness and love, but also represent a simple, basic principle of a man's worth, one a man can live a whole life by.†   (source)
  • And though on principle he had never yet stayed more than the one night, his departure the next day had gradually got later.†   (source)
  • In this city where sometimes money mattered more than fidelity or honor or merit, style mattered more than money; fashions came and went even more frequently than principles and convictions, leaving only the unchanging signal colors of youth gangs as a sartorial tradition.†   (source)
  • The principle of process?†   (source)
  • I've always traveled first class, maybe not in the way you'd approve with all your fine Christian principles, but it's done all right by me.†   (source)
  • My father's faith was bred into his bones, his principles were his sinews, and both responded to a mind richly stored with examples from the Bible, and from Nichol-son's Repentances.†   (source)
  • It incorporates the principle of consent into British constitutional law and repeals the Government of Ireland Act of 1920.†   (source)
  • Max thought Strategy sounded boring—lots of principles and dry theories.†   (source)
  • His dad, Gary, who trained to be a Navy SEAL, gave me my first book on weight lifting, and I immediately started putting the exercises and principles in that book to use on a daily basis.†   (source)
  • What principle, Howie?†   (source)
  • The Dallas motorcade route violates every one of these principles.†   (source)
  • Remembering that you and I have disagreed so often in the past, I thought you would be gratified to see me acting in accordance with your principles.†   (source)
  • I suppose the idea was if the Germans landed on the coast, or something, the whole faculty'd go out and punch 'em to death…… I don't know NICK: It was probably more the principle of the thing.†   (source)
  • Every year Irene told her it was against her principles.†   (source)
  • Early on, I had discovered that I would rather take "Principles of Business Management" taught by an excellent teacher than suffer through "Shakespeare's Tragedies," a subject I normally would have enjoyed, with a mediocre one.†   (source)
  • Now, throughout Canterbury, Prudence Crandall was known as a stubborn woman, principled and resolute in her ways.†   (source)
  • Look at the clear principle, the control.†   (source)
  • Upon such observations, because they came so thick and full, he had begun to build an arsenal of uncoordinated aesthetic principles.†   (source)
  • A Missouri lieutenant who was wounded at Pea Ridge wrote in his diary while recovering from the wound that if he was killed, it would be while "fighting gloriously for the undying principles of Constitutional liberty and self government."†   (source)
  • There were one or two guiding principles to get him through the day.†   (source)
  • That's the ruling principle of American freedom, the source of our democratic liberties.†   (source)
  • How the proposed Constitution conforms to the principles of republican government.†   (source)
  • Bryn Shander remains the key, but the principle city will only be spurred to action if the major fishing towns, Targos in particular, join in.†   (source)
  • Kay is a person of strong principles—many of them learned from her grandmother, whom she called Nannie.†   (source)
  • Professor…. what are your political principles?†   (source)
  • I didn't come away with a handy list of policies that would solve all the problems of unskilled workers, but I did note some principles that seem important to improving their situation.†   (source)
  • If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.†   (source)
  • All the principles applied: the bikes were practical (Money); they were beautiful, glittering things (Romance); they were safe and durable (Self-Preservation); and they were status symbols for any family (Recognition).†   (source)
  • Duck Commander still follows that same principle today.†   (source)
  • It also embraced an area of grassy marsh which was alive with meadow mice: an ideal place for the pups to learn the first principles of hunting.†   (source)
  • Four: a spectacular vindication of the principle that each individual coin spun individually (he spins one) is as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does.†   (source)
  • There was almost a quarter million cash on hand, a far higher ratio of cash than regulations required, but consistent with his conservative principles.†   (source)
  • We no longer have time to atomize principles and beg the question.†   (source)
  • It must have been linked somehow to a far more complex machine, operating on principles that no-one could imagine, aboard Karellen's ship.†   (source)
  • Accept the reality' principle.†   (source)
  • Then as Leslie and I began to chat casually (about literature, I recollect, prompted by Nathan's helpful remark that I was a writer), I was conscious that the principle of the attraction of opposites was very much in effect.†   (source)
  • It is the principle of do it yourself.†   (source)
  • You cannot trick me into applying my principles to a hypothetical situation which will only work out the way that you want it to.†   (source)
  • The idea of being manhandled by a naked black boy appalled her: struck at the root of one of the basic principles of her civilized code.†   (source)
  • We couldn't make the things we dealt in; we hardly understood their principles.†   (source)
  • It had been his first principle to talk as if he were the poorest man in the world and she followed it, not only because he had but because it was true.†   (source)
  • Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response.†   (source)
  • They aren't just nations, but converted, transformed nations, and what matters is this transformation, not loyalty to ancient principles.†   (source)
  • These details did not help him, for the principle of their unity was undiscoverable, and he could not tell what he most passionately desired to know: whether his face was ugly or not.†   (source)
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