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Example sentences for: principle

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But this bright line in principle between contributions and expenditures quickly gets fuzzy in practice.
The Tipper Principle: By June 2000, I predict, we will all hate Tipper Gore.
This ideal has suffered for two decades from corporate pressure to privatize science, so it is very gratifying to see that the free software movement can today help reinvigorate the principle that inspired it.
not merely as a matter of expediency, but as a matter of principle."
Come to think of it, Kennedy himself, though nominally the author of that book, didn't glaringly exemplify its message of principle above politics.