(1) Such behaviour is inconsistent with her high-minded principles.

(2) The President's hopes for the country were high-minded, but too vague.

(3) The psychology of these high-minded missions is clear.

(4) But the government, in pursuit of high-minded ideals, has created a bureaucratic monster before which small business-people flee in terror.

(5) She has such integrity, such an ethical, high-minded view of what the human spirit can attain.

(6) This may not be the high-minded stuff that nudged this soft-spoken Barnard College graduate toward a career in publishing.

(7) Taylor's made a high-minded pledge to clean up American politics.

(8) Suspecting the worst, editorial boards and other high-minded folks demand an end to soft money.

(9) None of this high-minded prose seemed to have any effect on the New York legislature.

(10) In this case, I mean the high-minded part literally.

(11) Mr Fini was ostensibly a high-minded mutineer.

(12) For a certain subset of the attendees, the high-minded conferences during the day are simply prologues to a series of receptions, dinners, nightcaps, and after parties.

(13) There are some less high-minded reasons for the United States to show some respect for this Olympic endeavor.

(14) Not only are your mental images high-minded and pure, they're also impossible to send to me via telepathy.

(15) Inevitably, impatience will also overwhelm whatever high-minded arguments we might make in favor of the well-being of future generations.

(16) She belonged to a high-minded group of ladies who met and discussed Works of Literature.

(17) Those who consider Mr Obama too high-minded to save himself cannot have been paying attention.

(18) Because of this experience he came to champion the cause of psychiatry and of a high-minded version of socialism.

(19) Without imperial authority to reinforce its moral precepts, it increasingly relied on high-minded exhortation.

(20) In practice the actions of governments have been less high-minded: a fact the opposition is always quick to point out.

(21) It is music for the coach trade, at which only the most high-minded purist is likely to take offence.

(22) Murdoch's motivation was simply profit, and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists.

(23) These are not, you have to believe, the cynically high-minded ravings of a politician who merely wants to get re-elected.

(24) One of the quintet not only means business but high-minded, selfless business.

(25) When China says "we won't torture or kill Lai", it now seems that even such high-minded people as Canadian judges are willing to believe them. That in itself is extraordinary.

(26) Many will fall into prostitution or beggary, whatever the law says and high-minded donors hope.

(27) The company has also come in for ethical criticism, which must be particularly irksome to its high-minded founders.

(28) The problem is that not everyone is nice and not everyone is high-minded so financial markets--the success of financial markets is, in many ways, a success of regulation.

(29) We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

(30) He was charged with closing Guantanamo Bay, overhauling interrogation rules and translating Obama's high-minded campaign ideals into workable policy.

(31) The 90-6 vote in the Senate was especially notable because all but a half-dozen Democrats opposed their own President, on that high-minded principle known as not-in-my-backyard.