The phrase "a higher principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing moral, ethical, or philosophical concepts that are considered to be of greater importance or value than others.
Example: "In making this decision, we must consider a higher principle that transcends our immediate interests."
Alternatives: "a greater value" or "a superior standard".
But the American experiment has worked in large part because we guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle.
"There are people sitting on edge over this, but we have a higher principle here," said Corneila Orr, who taught Sunday school class today.
But only through the struggle of affirmative action are they coming to realize that such compromises, wisely pursued, can actually serve a higher principle: the supreme virtue of being fair to those who have been most unfairly treated.
"I had wanted to seek out a higher principle of life than the search for mere contentment, to pursue emotional experiences that could not be immediately transposed to a party of young people in a cell phone ad, even if it meant delving into ugliness, contracting an STD, or lifting my shirt to entice someone jerking off over the Internet.
Contrary to what some of Fukuyama's critics maintained, the model for a post-historical world was not the United States but the European Union, largely because it represented the triumph of law on a transnational basis, subjecting individual states to a higher principle of reason.
The first sort of ignorance is the ignorance a higher principle has of what is lower than it.
The legal standard is a high principle of our legal system, a start to protecting us against wrongful convictions.
It would mean sacrificing a high principle: no country has the right to over-run and annex another.
The official German government response to the ruling said: "The right to free movement of persons is a high principle and symbolises the idea behind the EU.
The German government welcomed the ruling in a labour ministry statement: "The right to free movement of persons is a high principle and symbolises the idea behind the European Union.
All the same, Gita's message is of an even higher principle of our inter-connectedness in the infinite omnipresence of God.
