Sentence examples similar to a principled existence from inspiring English sources

It wasn't selfishness but, rather, a principled egoism.

A principled desire to live more lightly on the planet?

But he is a pragmatist, albeit a principled one.

He led a principled, honest and dignified life.

This flies in the face of a principled welfare system".

The letters are those of a principled statesman.

Is he a principled conservative or a pragmatic deal-maker?

That was a tactical response, not a principled position.

Does that suggest a principled pragmatism?

He is a principled human being".

But Priest's proposal has difficulties of its own.[21] To mention some of them, Priest does not give a principled characterization of which properties are existence-entailing and which are not (which looks quite similar to the problem with the nuclear-extranuclear distinction which Priest points out in the above quotation).