How To Use Principled In A Sentence

Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition
Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
Little Women is a cheerful, wholesome account of the daily life of a highly principled family.
It is not a totally unprincipled choice since the degree of foreseeability required may be varied with the kind and extent of the damage, and the nature of the relationship between the parties.
He is both an insider and outsider, in filial and affiliated bonds with his home and his present, and he is connected to the various sectors of Vietnamese society and to the Westerners through a principled ethics.

You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
The decision to come out fighting to restore standards in higher education was principled and courageous.
This liberates us to be both principled and pragmatic!
We're dedicated to a principled stand, it's in the national interest and we'll be standing by that.
The throne was no longer at issue; now she was merely an eccentric noblewoman running from an unprincipled enemy.
During her hospital visits Dr Barbara had often described this high-principled air hostess. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.
Accused of being ‘unprincipled’ by an editor, he replied: ‘I have never toadied, nor lied, nor insulted.’
This high-principled lophobranch is so careful of its callow and helpless young that it carries about the unhatched eggs with him under his own tail, in what scientific ichthyologists pleasantly describe as a subcaudal pouch or cutaneous receptacle. Science in Arcady
Unprincipled accommodation will do harm to him.
Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
Today, principled values and beliefs are notably absent.
Blair's defiance is possible only because of the unprincipled character of the opposition he faces.
To explain why, let us start with the premise that the defenders of any progressive tax have to give some principled account of the optimal degree of tax progressivity.
This high-principled lophobranch is so careful of its callow and helpless young that it carries about the unhatched eggs with him under his own tail, in what scientific ichthyologists pleasantly describe as a subcaudal pouch or cutaneous receptacle. Science in Arcady
He looked like a schoolboy socialist's dream - the leader of the left whose selfless devotion to democracy exposed his enemies as unprincipled cads.
It's safer and it won't make other people seem as stupid as you are unprincipled.
The rejection of absolutism implicit in our constitutional structure may sometimes make our politics seem unprincipled.
Overall, the heavenly hierarchy moves from the freedom and might of contemplative adoration (by the seraphim, cherubim, and ophanim) through principled order and sovereignty (ruled by the dominions, princedoms, and powers) to active service toward others in a spirit of compassion and care (by the virtues, archangels, and angels). Archive 2007-09-01
From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble. The Reality Check
All of the Axial Age faiths began in principled and visceral recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time. The Great Transformation: Summary and book reviews of The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong.
These five justices have all the right in the world to have their own principled way of interpreting the constitution.
At the other end of this conversation is the principled position that there objective indicators of goodness in writing, that we know what they are, and that we need to help students interiorize and aspire to those standards. Archive 2006-12-01
They showed that far from being apathetic, they are principled, dynamic and determined to make a difference.
From what I understand, most Tea Partiers are against big, metastasized government, and against the current regime, just as Michael Moore and other principled Progs have been against a less controlling-engineering-redistributionist one. The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements
He is an independent minded and principled man, who is very different from most private eye characters.
Pure pragmatism is the antithesis of populism, and Washington tars politicians with mark of the unprincipled politician. The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers think Repubs should associate with Tea Party. Disagree on whether independent run would help Crist
The driving anger is far deeper and both more visceral and more principled.
I respect her, because at least she is principled - she believes in what she has put up here.
If we permit them - and only our principled resistance, peaceful where possible, but forceful where necessary, is the only thing that will stop them - those who presume to rule us intend to reduce us to abject helotry. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
How can you ever again position yourself as a principled candidate in this election?
If he was principled at all and believed that these things should be done, he would have spoken out.
To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare of the very beings whose present existence they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters.
If there had been principled resistance, the extreme and aberrational set of arrests might never have taken place.
I know I am recommending a pragmatic rather than a principled stand, but that is what national interest and foreign policy is all about.
Troublemakers: scapegrace ` wild and unprincipled, 'rakehell ` lewd and dissolute,' scarebabe (- bairn in Scotland), drawblood, flingbrand, blowcoal, makebate (as in ` debate '), stirpassion and stirstrife (why the wildflower loosestrife is accused of this propensity I know not), spitfire and shitefire VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
However, she said, she was taking a principled rather than a technical decision.
They would have to be very high-principled to reject the chance of getting something for nothing.
Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing. So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander?
Unprincipled, unpublishable in any legitimate commercial context, they drove prices down by their readiness to appear anywhere, do anything.
But then given his ruthlessly unprincipled behaviour in 1975 such behaviour shouldn't be unexpected.
In an age that favours froth over substance, and in a tough political world where simple ideas have to be hammered home, the presence of this high-principled intellectual is an anachronism.
There is neither harsh injustice nor unprincipled love nor Christological heresy in that; there is only unfathomable mercy.
But almost from the outset, Maskhadov was challenged and deliberately undercut by his ruthless and less principled rivals.
§ 284 "The court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed.", and because there is no principled reason for continuing to engraft a willfulness requirement onto section 284, I believe we should adhere to the plain meaning of the statute and leave the discretion to enhance damages in the capable hands of the district courts. In Re Seagate - CAFC Clarifies Attorney-Client Waiver, and then Some . . .
The Chicago Tribune called the oxbow an “outrage” perpetrated by “a set of unprincipled swindlers” intent on “building the road at the largest possible expense to the Government and the least possible expense to themselves.” Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Its attitudes are a Hare-brained mixture: both principled and progressive – not many dramatists make a woman representative of an era – and sentimentally flawed, since that woman, sensitive, volatile, beguiling, is aflutter with traditional femininity. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review
Ultimately any potential investors considering PETE SUMARUCK as a possible recipient of their hard-earned funds will be forced to rethink any notions of trusting such a scurrilous back-alley scallywag, slanderous liar, and unprincipled con-artist with any investments of any sort! Peter Sumaruck II
It is of paramount importance to take a principled stand against the advocates of communal hatred on all sides.
That should apply to all the parties seeking a principled accommodation.
We say we know exactly what "moral" is: it is your unprincipled conscience in subjugation to irrational prejudice, in servitude to the mob, validated only by appeals to authority. Archive 2007-01-01
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A young bank clerk who accompanied Crawley to the office was a type of what I might call the conscientiously unprincipled man. A Girl Among the Anarchists
Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
If he maintains such a principled approach in the subsequent campaign, I thought, he might even be able to turn public opinion around.
How is its position in this case in any principled way different from those who organized the McCarthyite anticommunist purges on American college campuses in the 1940s and 1950s?
The aim of the ICBBS conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science.
You are completely unprincipled and have no interest whatsoever in morals, justice or fairness of any kind.
Whistleblowers are highly principled people who are in the job because they thought they could do it in an ethical manner.
How a centre-right Christian party can support a godless and unprincipled Government beggars belief.
As colonial secretary he was efficient, high-principled, and even-tempered, and was willing to make allowances for the difficulties of his governors.
Why should someone resign for taking a principled stand based on a reasoned position?
Mr Cook simply has to appear principled and measured, and allow his henchmen and other supporters to do the work for him with MPs.
Ray McGovern and the other protestors at the 9: 15 liturgy were laying claim to this legacy of principled dissent.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fontinell deplores the misconceptions of Pragmatism which characterize the movement as “a kind of unfeeling, unprincipled, non-idealistic, expediental response to human problems”.
What a doughty, principled fighter for pensioners that McLennan is.
You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about.
She was a high-principled woman, '' says Fray, who insisted to NEWSWEEK that he had no intention of accepting the offer to buy votes. Bill And Hillary's Long, Hot Summer
MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall.
As the news network has grown, so too has its appeal to the unprincipled media whores who care nothing for anything but personal fame, money and power.
In Bombay he reminded his audience that a vote for Congress was also a vote for it, and his, foreign policy of peace and principled neutralism.
All those lofty ideals and principled declarations had led to unprecedented carnage in the trenches.
When grasping and unprincipled people begin to test the patience of the general public, I believe they have something to worry about.
He recognized the claims both of social convention and of personal inclination, and no man better evoked the power of passion to overwhelm the scruples of even the most highly principled person.
Duff sometimes behaved like a cad to his women; in politics, he was a model of principled behaviour.
His success in politics is not merely that of a courageous adventurer but that of a shrewd and high-principled man.
The people running the Massachusetts Republican Party love to use social conservatives to do the grunt work on campaigns, but they arrogantly see themselves as above "dirtying" themselves with the principled issues that conservatives care about. Right Wing Watch
While some say they do not feel comfortable using the word forgiveness because it's open to so many messy interpretations, I believe all would embrace the concept, if they knew of Ginn Fourie's favorite definition which states that - "Forgiveness is the principled decision to give up your justifiable right to revenge. Marina Cantacuzino: The Victims of Terrorism Who Do Not Seek Revenge
For the first century of the Republic's life, this picture of great figures, intellectual and pragmatic, principled and far-seeing, dominated explanations of the Constitution.
His friends describe him as a principled statesman, and a "struggler" in the ranks of the Ba'ath Party from the 1950s, when the party was officially banned in Iraq. Asia Times Online
Some unknown, unprincipled rascal wins a bunch of tickets for the first Test and promptly sells them on e-bay.
Voting against a bill for good reasons in a principled manner, based on one's party's kaupapa and policies, is not venal or corrupt.
The point of a radical move to restore the rule of law is that it offers both parties a principled basis for agreement.
There is no principled way to decide that one man's gratifications are more deserving of respect than another's or that one form of gratification is more worthy than another.
But there are several reductions of arithmetic to set theory, and seemingly no principled way to decide between them.
It is impossible to base principled politics on the ‘bad man’ theory of history.
He spoke of the principled stand Mick took on the issue of the transfer of elective orthopaedics from Kilkenny to Waterford.
And besides, though he was as practical and realistic as his father, he was also as principled and as headstrong and as stubborn as his mother, so he would follow in his father's footsteps.
As a result, his former image as a political operator was replaced by that of a principled leader.
I see no principled distinction between a SCOTUS ruling — which is a law — and a statute directing the executive branch to act against a contemnor. The Volokh Conspiracy » May Congress Order the Justice Department To Prosecute People Who the Justice Department Firmly Believes are Innocent?
First, I cannot find a principled distinction between "excludability" and "rivalrousness" that would apply to intellectual property, even should I accept that "rivalrousness" has a meaning independent of "excludability" not all schools of economics do. Scrivener's Error
His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
A “principled conservative” is one of those mythical creatures that exists only in thought experiments, kind of like frictionless surfaces, massless strings, point masses, etc. Matthew Yglesias » Lessig on Corruption and the Right
He was a very high-principled young man, who was a model citizen.
It must be said that in a direct sense we owe it in part to your sustained and principled support for our struggle that our President, Comrade Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, and many of my other fellow former political prisoners have gained release; that our national Chairman, Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo and other political exiles have come back home; that the African National Congress and all other organizations of our people have been either unbanned or derestricted; and that many of the fundamental laws of apartheid have been repealed. Statement by Walter Sisulu, Deputy President, ANC at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
Mr. Clinton said it is important to achieve what he called principled compromise in a time of divided government, without which he said there would be paralysis. Bill Clinton: Tax Deal Best That Can Be Achieved
Our words and actions will support secularists in their principled stand against fundamentalists.
brash, unprincipled, and conscienceless
I have no principled objection to it , ie no objection based on moral scruples.
Those who now portray her as a principled but rigid dogmatist, unwilling to make the slightest concession to the junta, forget that she used to face just the opposite criticism.
And as we know that he is a "principled" sort-of-man, (* wink, wink*) he will use wiretapping to listen in on Karl Rove's phone conversations with Bush as they reminisce on all their crimes and misdemeanors. Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues
Len Wallace respected all opinions - even while disagreeing - and he was always honest, focused and principled.
He's a pretty principled guy and isn't interested in the money - which is just as well because we're not paying him.
The unprincipled behaviour of the Bush administration has been met with principled conduct and objections.
Or do we do a little of both, going back and forth, and back again, from moral intuition to principled ideal?
In tributes and memorial speeches Paul has been eulogized by political friends and foes as honest, principled, and unpretentious.
One of the more depressing aspects of this is the "news management" of the story by the BBC, who delightedly showed the Blairesque General Synod Claque (with a few principled dissentients) applauding this loose-tongued Archbishop. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
If courts are to intervene by the imposition of public law standards upon a private body they must adopt a careful and principled approach.
Try to come up with a principled, compelling counterargument.
Forward - looking, principled and meaningful friendship, all are included in Canadian values.
He was one of the very few people of principled honesty that I had met, thus becoming an inspiration to me, and will be deeply missed.
Mr Bradley's quietly principled and wholly ethical stance is to be commended.
Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
The real indictment is of the Seattle Times that has repeatedly called Reichert's environmental record 'principled.' Environmental Leader Addresses Reichert Flap « PubliCola
As soon as the years begin to take a sufficiently obvious toll, she will vanish from the wingnut radar, to be replaced with some other newly discovered “cutie” who is as equally vapid and devoid of anything which might, by some reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for principled ethics. Think Progress » Chris Wallace on whether Palin will sit on his lap during their interview: ‘One can only hope.’
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I can choose my enemy, I prefer an unprincipled politician to a disguised true believer.
freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny
They cling to the unprincipled safe middle of every issue.
Hurrah for Rupert Murdoch and his high-principled publishing house! For reals?
Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing. So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander?
He had a completely different set of dumb-ass reasons for opposing the Civil Rights Act. You see the same thing in principled pro-Sweat Shop (heh) pundits. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No”
She's so principled, so sure of herself, so emphatic in her beliefs. IN A STRANGE CITY
It is worth nothing the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political thought, astute and pragmatic, unafraid of experiment, and --this is significant--"convinced of man's power to improve his condition through the use of intelligence""---Barbara Tuchman "An ambiguously worded political compromise written hundreds and hundreds of years ago."
The rejection of absolutism implicit in our constitutional structure may sometimes make our politics seem unprincipled.
When you must make decisions about marriages, you are obliged to be consistent and principled.
As a gentleman and scholar, he must rush to the defense of the brilliant, principled, and callipygian Jill.
How long can this schizophrenogenic behavior go on before it essentially cripples those same patriots--because their service and their patriotism can be rendered criminal on the slightest whim of this unprincipled coxcomb? Archive 2009-05-01
My chief disagreement with Doug is over the extent to which interpersonal morality, and in particular a principled dedication to rights, can be identified as a constitutive part of human flourishing. Cato Unbound
And since Bush is a canny and very unprincipled politician, he will not want to play in a game in which the odds are so heavily against him.
This demonstrates again a pragmatic rather than a principled approach.
Age faiths began in principled and visceral reaction against the unprecedented violence of their time. The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong: Questions
A certain principled conservative I have a good deal of respect for regards Niebuhr as a prophet. Reinhold Niebuhr wrote it after all « Dating Jesus
The trouble is that no one is taking a principled stand on either side.
Tim's principled stands on these issues propelled him to victory against his two better-known rivals.
principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency
The welcome sign of a principled politician is the desire to risk everything for change.
Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
He presents a noble, principled defence of the cooperative movement which coheres into a highly readable text.
We always have high-principled attitude about "The Client First", because a satisfied client is our success.
Rather, the dominant strain of principled conservatism has stood athwart history yelling, ‘Slow down!’
Hitting back, the toffs accuse the radicals of being idle, licentious and unprincipled. Times, Sunday Times
And the Germans are hard working, conscientious, trying hard to be principled pragmatics, wearing history heavily on their shoulder.
I ask can their leadership continue to spin ludicrous one minute sound bits and claim sound principled governance abilities. Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Coordinating Wall Street’s Stealth Lobbying Campaign To Kill Reform
But he is thoughtful and high-principled, and has a method and a purpose in the use which he makes of his money. Phineas Finn
In reality, its just one more time that you will show that you are simply an unprincipled coward.
The media have conferred on him the image of the victimised rebel, who was transported to a penal colony as the price of his principled insubordination.
Passionate and principled democrats were slow to recognise the dangers posed by totalitarianism 60 years ago.
I respected his principled stand, but when it came down to arguing with management, stopping redundancies etc. his principles stood for precisely nowt!
M. Kulasegaran lambasted Devamany as a "lalang" (unprincipled person). WN.com - Articles related to Sarkozy woos City bankers with promise of Paris tax break
'Ah, noble Edgar! just, high-principled, and firm!' half pronounced Camilla
A collective stand , principled and pragmatic, against forces that would divide us.
Wales; where he insinuated himself into the acquaintance of Mrs. Ecton, just after she had married Miss Melmond to Mr. Berlinton: and though this was not an intercourse that could travel to Gretna Green, the beauty and romantic turn of the bride of so disproportioned a marriage, opened to his unprincipled mind a scheme yet more flagitious. Camilla
And besides, though he was as practical and realistic as his father, he was also as principled and as headstrong and as stubborn as his mother, so he would follow in his father's footsteps.
The Greens support taking a principled approach to this legislation.
John McCain, the angrier of the two presumptive presidential contenders, has staked out a principled position against greed and obscene profits but has gone no further to call the errant bankers and brokers to account. Why No Outrage?
A fourth and final version of the third strategy, developed independently (and somewhat differently) by Balaguer (1995, 1998a) and Linsky & Zalta (1995), is based on the adoption of a particular version of platonism called plenitudinous platonism (Balaguer also calls it full-blooded platonism, or FBP, and Linsky and Zalta call it principled platonism). Platonism in Metaphysics
One of the most principled aspects of their decision was that political pressure on publishers to exercise a form of self-censorship should be resisted.
Your builder would appear to be one of those unprincipled persons.
I'm going to be unsparing here, because I think any escort who works in such an unprincipled manner deserves trouble.
Nick is not a foot dragger; he is the single most principled person on the council. Guess What, Establishment. McGinn is the New Licata. Except, He’s the Mayor. « PubliCola
Your father is loyal, principled and obedient to me, which is how it should be. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
She is one of the most intelligent, sensitive, and principled individuals I know, and she will enjoy great success as a dramaturge (theater is her first love).
YB M. Kulasegaran lambasted Devamany as a "lalang" (unprincipled person). WN.com - Articles related to Sarkozy woos City bankers with promise of Paris tax break
My friend Michelle Minton argues that high tech firms trying to do business in censorious China ought to take their ball and go home in principled protest against the Green Dam Youth Escort program. Only Nextel Could Go to China
It says that there is no principled way to decide that some limitations on land use are takings and others are not.
He urged those gathered to "remain high-principled people who care about spiritual values rather than material goods."
It has won a considerable global readership as the result of its principled approach.
The hard-hitting, high-principled, investigative journalists of this country have no price.
He has paid a significant price for his principled approach to politics.
Lovelock'sprincipled nonconformity can be traced to his childhood.
History shows us that it is in exactly such times that unprincipled men such as Schröder can be expected to do crazy things.
But now it turns out that on the other epaulet was perched the principled figure of Taylor Branch, not at all claiming to be a harp-strummer himself but insistently reminding his old friend that there were better angels in politics and humanity whose claims should not be scorned. What Was Bill Thinking?
Later events proved him in fact to have been a ‘daring and unprincipled scoundrel’.
The foreigner gained time to anarchize by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order: and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
Firstly we believe representative government to be an unprincipled fraud and propose a radical alternative in the form of participative democracy.
He called his iniquitous vices, follies -- his licentiousness, love of pleasure -- his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called "fashion" -- the fashion of the young men of the day. The Kellys and the O'Kellys
These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast hours before the summit, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich urged Republicans to engage in "principled, responsible, bipartisanship. Summit settled little but showed a lot
His wisdom had in truth consisted in his capacity to feel that Florence was a nice girl, clever, well-minded, high-principled, and full of spirit — and in falling in love with her as a consequence. The Claverings
The idea that acts of love are inferior to principled acts is a deep-rooted philosophical tradition.
There could hardly be a more graphic illustration of how putting power in the hands of unprincipled people can bring a community down, if it yields to such pressure.
In short, Berenice’s diamond cast her as a reincarnation of Cleopatra, come to make trouble and spread her alien, unprincipled foreign ways. Caesars’ Wives
The opposition has been assiduous in considering the issues and developing solutions consistent with the principled position it has taken on the bill.
The extended mechanism turned out to be capable of giving a principled account of lexical blocking, the pragmatics of adjectives, and systematic polysemy.
Is this the unprincipled pliability I detest in the people I put up with at Rome?
Until your party can offer leadership and be seen to do something principled, you will never reduce your minority.
The foreigner gained time to anarchise by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order; and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte. Letters
Of course the joker in the deck is the word principled before libertarian, and, as many online commentators have noted, Rand Paul is a bit more inclined to waffle on an interventionist foreign policy than is his father. Robert Scheer: Who's Afraid of Rand Paul?
Hitting back, the toffs accuse the radicals of being idle, licentious and unprincipled. Times, Sunday Times

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