Sentences with phrase «cut against their principles»

They were pragmatic, and sometimes cut against their principles.

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In asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternative.

According to the march's guiding vision and definition of principles, they are against any federal, state or local cuts or restrictions on women's ability to access reproductive healthcare services, birth control, HIV / AIDS care and prevention, or «medically accurate sexuality education.»

«I believed that if we made a principled case for ruling out a VAT rise, as well as against premature cuts in public spending, it would change the course of the election,» said Mr Balls.

In the case of the new science - fiction thriller The Thing, that principle applies heavily to the Antarctic setting, where inclement weather cuts off a tiny science station from potential rescuers, darkness and bitter cold make even closely huddled buildings seem forbiddingly far apart, and circumstances set everyone in the area against each other.

For Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice the First Amendment «journalistic principles» aren't as clear - cut, particularly where a guy's reputation is ruined and the newspaper itself presented only part of the story by failing to note that all charges against Feyissa were dismissed.