1.   Extreme conditions invite escalating intensity and lead each side to publicly embrace lofty principles one day, then rush to court to argue apparently opposite principles the next day.

2.   Political scrimmage involves clashing egos more than competing ideas, even though our elected officials habitually cloak their motives in lofty principles.

3.   Turning such lofty principles into a real agreement will be a complex task.

4.   Why else would Shelly Silver be here, speaking on television for his delegation, except for a selfless attempt to further the lofty principles of the Democratic party?

5.   But some who viewed a dress rehearsal expressed surprise at the glaring brand-naming of equipment in what is supposed to be a ceremony focusing on lofty principles.

6.   But today this great religion is being challenged by extremists and revisionists whose goals and means contradict with the lofty principles of Islam.