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How to use the word principles in a Sentence? Page #3

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These are the values and principles that Ronald Reagan fought for all his life and what his foundation promotes today, president Zelenskyy’s devotion to the cause of freedom is truly a symbol of man’s highest aspiration. He deserves to receive the Reagan Freedom Award.

– Fred Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would never, ever tell somebody not to follow their dream, i would just say, ‘If you’re dead serious about what you’re doing, you got to buckle up and take it. You’ve got to sacrifice as far as you can and compromise, but don’t ever sacrifice your soul and your principles and your values.’ That’s where Ruthanna and I differ. I would never tell a young person not to follow their dream because I would crush somebody. Even if they weren’t that talented, I wouldn’t tell them that.

– Dolly Parton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are things I'd like to see more aggressiveness on, but I spent enough time in Justice Department to understand why these investigations take time and why really getting back to the core fundamental principles of rule of law are more important.

– Mary McCord

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m particularly pleased to be here with friends and colleagues from the Congress, this is, as always, very powerful to see a bipartisan group of leaders from Congress standing together, coming together in support of Ukraine, and standing strongly against Vladimir Putin’s war of choice and aggression that is not only – is first and foremost affecting the people of Ukraine, but poses a threat to the basic principles of the international order that all of us stand strongly for.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're going to keep taxes low, keep regulations low, give them opportunities to be successful and to partner where appropriate, for me, it is just telling the story of South Dakota … We have the No. 1 economy in the country. We're growing, our people are thriving, they're happier, and it's because we've been following conservative principles.

– Kristi Noem

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have to insist our principles -- democracy, freedom and the dignity -- are what our people desire for, our future has always been decided by outsiders.

– Annette Lu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What Putin is doing goes against every value that Students For Liberty holds dear, and these are the same values that America was founded upon: the principles of liberty and nonintervention of peace through strength, we are seeing on the ground here ordinary people, and I mean ordinary people, who are mobilizing, self-organizing. There were a couple of militias happening in different neighborhoods as guns became available -- men formed into groups and they started to patrol their neighborhoods.

– Kevin Flanagan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The current situation in Ukraine is the result of many complex factors. China always makes its own position according to the merits of the matter itself. We believe that all countries should solve international disputes by peaceful means in line with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.

– Zhang Jun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He is a proven fiscal conservative leader. He knows how difficult it is to flip a seat and then keep it, mick understands putting your constituents first sometimes means bucking the party line and that principles matter.

– Nancy Mace

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

America must live up to its principles of equality, and this amendment is a necessary and essential step toward the future we deserve. This fight continues.

– Aaron Ford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of these underlying principles is to constantly refine what we are doing so that we can continue to enhance public safety in a thoughtful manner, we are now more than one year into his term, he has listened to community members, victims and colleagues. Based on everything we have learned we are rolling out these policy adjustments.

– Alex Bastian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a growing recognition that what is happening in Ukraine matters first and foremost to Ukrainians, but it should matter to everyone in the world, what’s at stake are larger principles that are the foundation of the entire international order established after two World Wars and the Cold War … basic principles that are needed to maintain peace and security.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I regret to say this is the new normal in Eastern Europe, we do not know what will happen in United States. But the situation has already demonstrated we face a crisis in European security. Moscow has made it clear that it is prepared to contest the fundamental principles that have underpinned our security for decades and do so by using force.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What's at stake is not simply, as important as it is, Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence but very basic principles that have, in a hard-fought way after two World Wars and a Cold War, undergirded security, peace and prosperity for countries around the world -- principles like one country can't simply change the borders of another by force ; principles like one country can't simply dictate to another its choices, its policies, with who it will associate ; principles like one country can't exert a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors to its will, if we allow those principles to be challenged with impunity, even if it's half a world away in Europe, that will have an impact here as well.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I were on the ballot in 2022, I would not relitigate 2020 election issues, republican Party still stands for the basic principles of smaller government, more freedoms for individuals and lower taxes. Republican Party's what they ought to be talking about.

– Saxby Chambliss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no change. There will be no change, we make clear that there are core principles that we are committed to uphold and defend, including Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the right of states to choose their own security arrangements and alliances.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric, some of us do, but the fundamental principles and values at stake are very similar.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most of the problems we have in this nation right now is not our Constitution. It’s not our founders. It’s that we’re not following those founding principles, and we’re not following through on the Constitution. That’s the real issue in the republic right now, we get back to following founding principles again, and we can have the same advance to the most powerful, most moral military in the world, the strongest economy in the world, and the greatest light, hope, and opportunity for the rest of the world. The world’s counting on us to be able to get this right because they know if we can’t get it right, there’s no chance that they can get it right.

– James Lankford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dialogue with Russia needs to be based on the core principles of European security and to address NATO's concerns about Russia's actions, and it needs to take place in consultation with NATO's European partners, including with Ukraine.

– Konstantin Gavrilov.However

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates because it is really not a place where medical research belongs, i was not going to compromise scientific principles to just hold onto the job.

– Francis Collins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I raise strong objections to such blatantly misogynist material, it reflects extremely poorly on the standards of education and testing, and it goes against all norms and principles of a progressive and empowered society.

– Priyanka Gandhi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We served together for 25 years( in the Senate). We disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another -- not one time that I can think of, i found Bob to be a man of principle, pragmatism and enormous integrity. He came into the arena with certain guiding principles to begin with : devotion to country, to fair play, to decency, to dignity, to honor, to -- literally -- attempting to find the common good.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He is making our friends around the world nervous, our friends around the world need to know that being a friend of America is a good thing and we will stand up for our friends and principles around the world.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

– Alexis de Tocqueville

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2 years ago

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