lodestar

• Obama is a pragmatist in pursuit of an ideological prize - willing to zig and zag so long as his lodestar of expanded government is ahead of him. —  PrairiePundit
• But Schock can top them all in one respect: He's Capitol Hill's first Reagan Baby, born while the Republican lodestar was in his first term. —  chicagotribune.com -
• Success on the battlefield-as well as the health of our military-must be our lodestar, as we seek to help our new president defend our nation. —  Latest Articles
• There stands Jesus in the firmament of human hope like a star of the first magnitude, above the multitudes of hungering and sorrowing and sinning humanity, growing larger and brighter and more splendid with each generation, until today all over the earth the nations are in commotion as they gaze upward and point with the trembling finger of yearning and hope to Him as the lodestar of their lives. —  Blogotional
• She was the lodestar which guided him on to his path of duty, and, stimulated by his wishes to find favour in her sight, Joey never relaxed in his exertions; naturally active and methodical, he was indefatigable, and gave the greatest satisfaction to Mr Sleek, who found more than half the labour taken off his hands; and, further, that if Joey once said a thing should be done, it was not only well done, but done to the very time that was stipulated for its completion. —  The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook

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