Sentence examples for a principled argument from inspiring English sources

Having said that, my opponent possibly wouldn't know a principled argument if it hit him over the head".

We don't have interrogators and we don't have interrogation expertise". That's true enough, but Ms. Haspel would have served herself better had she offered a principled argument, rather than a pragmatic excuse.

There may be (and Leiter thinks there is) a principled argument for protecting liberty of conscience (so long as claims of conscience do not involve burden-shifting), but "there appears to be no equally principled argument that picks out distinctively religious conscience as an object of special moral and legal solicitude".

And so there is a principled argument against the Ledbetter bill: namely, that Lilly Ledbetter was an adult; that if she didn't think she was being paid fairly she was free to ask for more money or to leave; and that government interference with the idea of what constitutes fair pay is likely to cause more problems than it's worth.

Neither Democrats nor Republicans will make a principled argument for nation-building conducted by small numbers of soldiers, diplomats and aid workers: namely, that it is far cheaper to help foreign governments control their own territory than to deal with the terrorism, crime and disease that flourish in ungoverned areas.

"I think there is a principled argument to make about tax playing a bigger part in the reduction of the deficit because tax makes lives harder for those paying it but cuts on the scale the government are talking about wrecks lives altogether.

But McCloskey's position undermines any principled argument for a change in standards.

Can he present a strong, principled argument why – despite his past statements – compromise is necessary?

But the way Ms Young framed her argument, the majority felt, offered no way to draw a principled line between accommodation and special treatment.

If officials think that's anathema to a sound education, then they've given civil rights advocates the most principled argument yet for why ethnic studies is so vital for the next generation of community leaders.

And I understand the principled argument against bailing out struggling (or, in this case, failing) companies.