Sentence examples for a principled attempt from inspiring English sources

The whipping up of hatred is part of the normal course of wars; and if the bill were part of a principled attempt to keep Britain out of any war between America and Islam, it would have a defence in principle.

By asserting his power over welfare, and tightening the screws on total household benefits, the chancellor was trying to protect the government's reforms from his colleague's bungling.Finally, though a quintessentially tactical move, the chancellor's announcement was also part of the government's principled attempt to sharpen the incentives for work over inactivity.

The end result of the philosopher and author of Utopia Thomas More's principled attempts to moderate Henry VIII's ingenious pragmatism is too well known to comment upon.

On the contrary, they led a principled and honest attempt to do what most Americans would want: to extend the middle-class tax cuts for one year.

It is a principled and judicious attempt to wrench the agenda of human rights away from propaganda and vulgarisation and return the community of nations to a sensible, measured and proportionate debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Several new issues arise in attempting a principled design of a specific system, and it is essential that they be resolved in order to ground the effort for a suitable control design framework.

Entitled "Appendix B: The Doctrine of Types," the appendix represents Russell's first attempt at providing a principled method for avoiding what soon was to become known as "Russell's paradox".

Eventually, Romneybot's political-calculation matrix ran the numbers and determined that he could not risk even a single anti-gay vote by going out and attempting to make a principled case for retaining Grenell.

The colossal failures of the Bush administration should be what is remembered about Bush's eight years in office, not some feeble attempt to show what a principled guy he was.

It will attempt to mobilise support behind a principled policy of democratic geopolitics.

It is about what happened and how it happened". Lambert's decision to go public at the weekend was odd, looking more like an attempt to appease panicking shareholders than a principled stand.