Sentences with phrase «than principle»

Yet when we value outcomes more than our principles we've lost before the race has even started.

I have read about cases where the debtor was able to negotiate a pay - off which was less than the principle amount of the loan.

When ever I have an issue I'm always sent to talk to someone other than the principle I've never met the principle even when I requested.

Initially, the equity builds slow because you are paying down more interest than principle.

With mortgage amortization you pay a lot more interest in the beginning than principle.

His positions often appear to be based upon political convenience rather than principle.

The second difficulty is that the spirit of love is something more than principles and rules.

(His previous criticism, unmentioned by Gordis, was about the amount rather than the principle of payment itself.)

Indeed, the principle of the urge to live is far more basic to life than the principle of survival of the fittest.

Patti Rundall OBE, Policy Director at Baby Milk Action, picked up on the Chairman, Peter Brabeck's remarks that Nestle considers regulations to be much less important than principles and core values and appealed for shareholders to help in holding management to account for the harm it continues to cause to breastfeeding and infant health, contributing as it does to the needless death and suffering of babies around the world.

Should they be the same or different than the principles applied in retroactive child support cases?

«Solidarity» refers to the overall quality of our common life rather than a principle by which we can judge specific circumstances and actions.

This actually goes farther than your principle does.

And they didn't enter political life to settle for some regular Republican who's more like a CEO than a principled statesman.

For the sufferer more certain than any principle, more certain than any action is his or her pain - pathos.

They argue that virtue ethics gives a more holistic view of the moral life than principle ethics does; it not only insists that we try to be blameless but promotes moral excellence; and it recognizes that the vitality of the good life is not codifiable in a set of principles.

Yet, if large groups of employees (cleaners, for instance) can be outsourced into non-partnership, the guarantee that allemployees will be partners becomes more a legal technicality than a principle of governance.

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.

It certainly suggests that Mr Miliband's position is closer to posture than principle.

(Even with this race penalty, Democrats still were willing to give more to blacks than those principled Republicans.)

Douglas Carswell MP argues that the front benches of Parliament are dominated by politicians more concerned about presentation than principle.

The Lib Dem leader appears to suggest that any post-election arrangement with the Tories would be a coalition of convenience rather than principle when he asserts: «There is a gulf in values between myself and David Cameron,» adding: «They have no progressive reform agenda at all — only an unbearable sense of entitlement that it's just their time to govern.»

«I verily believe that the applicant has not committed any offence other than his principled opposition to the ruling government and his arrest and detention are meant to silence the opposition and create a one - party state by the respondents to allow the APC to dominate Nigeria.

For example, they found that the herbicide Roundup was 125 times more toxic to cells than its principle active ingredient, glyphosate.

Samuel L. Jackson is the obvious choice for the role, but the character comes off more as a parody than a principled detective on a mission.

TER often appeared to have difficulty landing on a consistent education agenda, often led more by gimmick than principle.

This prolongs the payoff of your mortgage and as a result you may end up paying more interest than the principle over the life of your current 30 year mortgage.

Even in Venice, the painter's home town, his work appears to be marketed as something that is also there, in the shadow of much bigger names like Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo and Veronese or, of course, Canaletto — rather than a principle reason to visit.

The court adopted Lord Hoffman's reasoning in Gray v Thames Trains [2009] UKHL 33, [2009] 4 All ER 81, which although not a joint enterprise case (Mr Gray sued for the consequences of a murder he had committed because of post-traumatic stress disorder arising from a train accident) nevertheless expounded policy rather than principles for cases of this type.

That seems little more than a principled rejection of the very premise and purpose of the law.

-- it may reflect the large proportion of users to creators and thus shows the tyranny of the majority rather than a principled view.

It will hasten the return of brokerage rather than principled political parties.

By having those guidelines in the business plan, I prioritize balance and diversification higher than the principle of «let your winners run.»

His experience in government points him towards the international development / foreign affairs / defence / Northern Ireland nexus, but the details are less important than the principle.

Ergo, this experiment demonstrates nothing more than the principle of physics called «specific heat».

It also found that clients» interests were more often prioritised above the principles of integrity and effectiveness; and these in turn were prioritised more than the principles of independence and legality.

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

News of the tape filled the airways, and Republican officeholders began to back away from Trump (though out of cowardice more than principle, as it turned out).

Only, I believe, if their pluralism is one of convenience rather than principle — that is, if it is a device of political expedience instead of a truly philosophical conviction.

Cary goes on to comment that «God is a person rather than a principle» and to contrast hearing God's voice (Lutheran?)

Organized religion brings so much more with it than those principles, judgment and divisiveness for all.