Sentences with phrase «principles than win»

«I'd rather lose a race and stand on my principles than win a race and cave and give in to something I'm not,» he said.

President Mahama on Thursday tweeted saying: «On the matter of trainee teacher allowances, better to lose on principle than win using falsehood.

Not exact matches

I would rather lose with integrity than win by compromising my principles.

Abacus Data polling last month said Canadians are more likely to think the NDP will «promise anything to win votes» than the Liberals are, an unusual spot for a party so rooted in principle and ideology.

He decides his stands on the issues based on what will win that crowd over, rather than any principle.

Populist and social conservatives can beat the establishment by showing that they are not only more principled than the establishment, but that they are also smarter and more realistic about how to win the persuadable voters who decide elections.

I still hope Arsenal will win Something with their Philosophy and principles rather than buying trophies like Man city or Chelsea.When we do win however long it may be that would be a true victory once acheived with «Class» i will wait forever for this to happen the day it happens would be one of the great moment in my life.Untill then and forever i will support «Arsenal»

The German democracy is much less black - and - white than, say, the US one and the large majority of voters value adherence to democratic principles much higher than having their party win at all costs.

If they tried to ram through PR before the election it would be seen as an attempt to stop the Tories winning rather than a principled move.

Wellstone was far more liberal than most Minnesotans, but won & retained the seat on his principled stances - you couldn't help but respect the guy.

What I am pondering is how many Labour members were voting Corbyn in order to send a message about Labour staying true to its roots and principles rather than actually wanting him as leader, might they recoil at the thought of him actually winning?

We've allowed ourselves to be defined as purely pragmatic — concerned with winning elections alone, rather than winning for a purpose — thereby ceding the mantle of principle to the far Left.

The former government whip added: «The present leadership of the party, Momentum and other associated left wing groups appear to think that their own individual pious principles are more important than winning elections.

The present leadership of the party, Momentum and other associated left wing groups appear to think that their own individual pious principles are more important than winning elections.

Their six simple «guiding principles» also include the need to channel innovation into the private sector through formal tech transfer programs, and to think in terms of lasting knowledge creation rather than «quick win» potential when funding new projects.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

But more than ever, the actual mechanics of pinball — the multi-directional movement, the cacophony of competing stimuli, the serendipity at play in winning or losing — function as Linklater's guiding principles.

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching (2009), the REVERE Award — winning Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom (2013), You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers (2014), and The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers (2008), as well as the how - to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

Ones that had an impact on me at various times in my life that come to mind are: SOME MEN ARE MORE PERFECT THAN OTHERS, OLD YELLER, WHERE PEACHTREE MEETS SWEET AUBURN, PEACHTREE ROAD, THE RICH PART OF LIFE, ANDERSONVILLE, GREAT EXPECTATIONS; applying the principles of a book on win - win fight resolutions definitely made me a much better parent!

Given that they make the bulk of vertical heat transport in the atmosphere, not sure the models are worth more than the expertise of the different groups into building complex subgrid paramterisations, and this is very far from «models implemetning first principles»... I think that at this stage, climatology have more to win from progress in filling experimental database than from progress from modelling.

The maxim «any rule is better than no rule at all» wins at the expense of the principle «no rule better than a bad rule».

Lawyers tend to concentrate on points which win cases, rather than on first principles, and whilst human rights were a relevant consideration before the Act's passing (judgments of the European Court of Human Rights were persuasive but not binding), they amounted to little more that.