11.   But most are resigned that Clinton eventually will abandon principles to reach a budget agreement.

12.   China is a great nation, and it will never be intimidated into abandoning its principles. . .

13.   Finally, candidates do all sorts of things in an effort to win the presidency, from abandoning principles to wearing silly hats.

14.   For those principles have been abandoned.

15.   Former opponents of capital punishment in Massachusetts are abandoning their principles and fleeing into the arms of political prostitution.

16.   Former radicals are forever being faulted for selling out, for abandoning their principles, for ceasing to remain radical enough.

17.   He called both Vice President Gore and former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley well-meaning centrists who had abandoned Democratic principles.

18.   In an interview last week, Pozen said the company had not abandoned its principles concerning stocks with high price-to-earnings ratios.

19.   In his dissenting opinion, Souter accused the majority of having abandoned the principles of judicial restraint.

20.   Larson, who had accused Rapoport of abandoning his principles for expediency, refused the offer.