The phrase "adherence to a principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance of following a specific guideline or belief in various contexts, such as ethics, law, or personal conduct.
Example: "His adherence to a principle of honesty earned him the respect of his colleagues."
Alternatives: "commitment to a principle" or "loyalty to a principle".
This account of legitimacy is based on an adherence to a principle of reasonableness.
Matt Mottel (synths): It is not so much a sound rather more an adherence to a principle of the harmoniacal.
You have to admire that kind of adherence to a principle, whatever the principle is...
This loss of common sense presupposes the decline of a common world into which fits our adherence to a principle of living together.
The rule of law involves adherence to a principle of governance whereby all persons... including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced... and which are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.
They ensure credible, continuing and complete monitoring, accountability for past mistakes and true adherence to a precautionary principle that does not allow short-term gain to outweigh public and ecological safety.
These suggestive inferences presumably reflect the narrator's adherence to a Gricean principle of orderliness, though such an observation is little help from a computational perspective.
Rather, I believe our adherence to a set of principles and practices for managing creative talent and risk is responsible.
The movement's umbrella organization, the Coalition of Essential Schools, spans a diverse array of public and private schools united by their adherence to a set of common principles.
The Pope seems unaware that, for hundreds of millions of people, religious affiliation is not a matter of intellectual adherence to a set of abstract principles, but a question of identity.
On the Merriam-Webster Web site, for instance, fundamentalism is partly defined as "a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles".
