Standardized tests measure what matters least, and raising test scores often requires sacrificing the more meaningful kinds of learning.

Of course, originally tax cuts weren't supposed to require sacrificing something else.

David Baldwin (1997) argues that pursuing security sometimes requires sacrificing other values, including marginal values and prime values.

The problem is that Mr. Frum's social evolutionary message requires sacrificing the health of innocent children, an end that even the hard-core Republican focus groups won't accept.

And I hope it doesn't require sacrificing a black goat or something.

I believe that reducing surplus food is the ideal, but that requires sacrificing either sales (only order a set amount for each day) or convenience (prepare food to order).

Harvesting neural stem cells requires sacrificing the developing fetus, a process considered too costly to perform on many mammals that are valuable in other studies.

To get the F-14 into those "marks," as they are called, will almost certainly require sacrificing one or more other programs, so the defense budget does not increase.

He had often toyed with the notion of installing one, but his ship's limited power-generation capability meant that to operate a transporter would require sacrificing another system of equal energy level.

"And if that requires sacrificing savings," he said, so be it.