In most cases, there is at least some form of sacrifice required for progress.
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It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.
In fiction, we can have tragic figures that redeem themselves with great acts of sacrifice.
"They've taught us the meaning of sacrifice, and I think we'd forgotten it, " he said.
That is the spirit America needs now -- a stronger, newer spirit of service and of sacrifice.
Martino added that that commitment requires resources and "a constant spirit of sacrifice" on the part of Italians.
For a long time your service has demanded a particular kind of sacrifice.
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Those people who put their lives in danger do so not out of sacrifice but rather out of their virtues.
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In response to complaints, Bioware's Mr Hudson said the "underlying theme of sacrifice" throughout the series as reflected in the ending.
The trip is a reward for years of sacrifice on the part of Lawrence and her family, both of time and money.
But the farmers have grown suspicious of the language of sacrifice.
The answer lies in demanding a sufficient level of sacrifice to chase away free riders and to motivate the faithful to pitch everything into their church life.
The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make.
Monti, whose own election bid to stay on as premier was soundly rejected by angry voters, telephoned Napolitano to thank him for having agreed "with great spirit of sacrifice" to continue.
But as the Reagan years proved, normal is relative, and once the policy mix leaned in favor of growth, past presumptions about a future of sacrifice and want were quickly discredited.
After years of sacrifice, wage-earners are starting to profit.
The mayor's suggestion in the summer heatwave of 2005 that Londoners saved water by flushing the toilet less frequently was considered an act of sacrifice too far for most people -- global warming or not.
In his entire speech, Obama never once mentions that the United States led a coalition of free peoples against Germany, Italy and Japan, nor does he ever discuss the obligation of sacrifice to prevent a recurrence.
In an act of sacrifice and long-term planning which looks rather foreign to those of us on this side of the North Sea, they pledged to limit the amount of earnings from the fund that they funnel into current spending.
Yet as we near the 10th anniversary of the attacks that thrust our nation into war, this is also an occasion to pay tribute to a soldier, and a generation, that has borne the burden of our security during a hard decade of sacrifice.
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And yet, for all its imperfections, the Turtle King was so much more practical than sitting in a stopped taxi or crowding onto a Beijing bus that it had become what all new-energy technology is somehow supposed to be: cheap, simple, and unobtrusive enough so that using it is no longer a matter of sacrifice but one of self-interest.
Because of their sacrifice, because of the struggle of generations in both our countries, we can come together tonight, in freedom and in security.
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The more traditional minded will be heartened by the theme of personal sacrifice for the sake of family.
Mr Doubleday said: "I think the enormity of the sacrifice and the brutality of WWI shouldn't be allowed to just slip away from the consciousness of the population as a whole, " he said.
We honor their service, we stand in awe of their sacrifice, and we pray for the safety of those who fight and for the families of those who have fallen.
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All of us athletes sacrifice more of the family than people maybe realize.
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And because of the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women, the war in Iraq is over.
Because of the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform -- a whole lot of them from here in New Hampshire -- the war in Iraq is over.
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