But it hardly makes him look like a man of courage and high principle.
He was funny and biting, deftly mixing high principle with low invective.
Mr Obama's flip-flop on public finance is certainly cynical (and his willingness to justify it as an act of high principle even more so).
We are told that Barack Obama believes too much in an America of high principle and bold endeavor, but when John Kennedy called of going to the moon, he didn't say it's too far to get there.
The arbitrage scheme exploits that system using the basic buy low, sell high principle: A Web site arbitrageur uses a low-priced keyword to lure traffic and then redirects that traffic to another site that contains little content and is stacked with ads that earn a much higher price.
The danger of this happening will become acute on December 21st, when a Scottish businessman, Andrew Cubie, is due, at Mr Dewar's request, to publish a report about the future of university tuition fees, a subject which accident as much as design has elevated into a difference of high principle between Labour and the Lib Dems.
It has been deployed in association with a mix of high-minded principle and arrogance.
In principle, high inflows of private capital from the rich world to the poor could make up for any slowdown in rich-country demand.
Such behaviour has never prevented these countries from issuing high-minded declarations of principle.
What shall we do to ensure that international consent become the principle of both high-level policy and every day life of people?
This principle lay behind the high spending of numerous consumer dot.com business which have now run out of money.
He said Thursday that the principle upheld by the high court's ruling is that no American should go bankrupt because of illness.
Lukas was thoroughbred racing's first organization man, a former Wisconsin high school basketball coach who brought the principle of "flooding the zone" from the court to the race track.
As if in homage to that lost work, Robbins operates on the mural principle, moving gaily and with high technical fluency from penniless actors (John Turturro and Emily Watson) to sincere socialites like Countess La Grange (Vanessa Redgrave) and a ravishing Fascist named Margherita Sarfatti (Susan Sarandon).
Our guiding principle has been to focus resources on targeting high-risk areas in order to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, while increasing flexibility and reducing burden for grant recipients wherever possible.
They may be taught the basics of interest rates as a mathematical principle, but applied economics is a topic often left until high school for study.
In April 2005, the council agreed in principle to change from the current system of first, middle and high schools to a system of primary and secondary schools.
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He opposed the war not on principle but for fear of casualties: he had been presented with estimates that ran high as 40, 000.
But it has by now established the principle that the only way to control health-care costs is for this panel of medical high priests to dictate limits on certain kinds of care to certain classes of patients.
About 3 in 5 respondents supported either the suggested spending limits or the principle of having spending limits, with respondents frequently suggesting spending should be equitable and that there must be high levels of transparency and accountability.
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