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What is a lodestar?

What is a lodestar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.
  2. A guiding tenet or principle.
  3. (law) A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.
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They have provided a lodestar to every succeeding generation, guiding us, galvanizing us, and enabling us to move forward in the face of uncertainty.
His example is the lodestar of our aspirations, and we fain would be his disciples.
The lodestar by which the free world has navigated since the late 1940s, the containment of Russia and of communism, is becoming obsolescent, because of that policy's very success.
As a singer, DeLaria's lodestar is obviously Miss Peggy Lee, with a big dollop of Ella Fitzgerald's scat stylings throw in for flavor.
In that regard, Governments are called on to act and must make child-related questions a policy issue, because it is thereby that such issues will become a choice of society and a political lodestar.
Our values and strategy serve as our lodestar, guiding us in our day-to-day work and actions.

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