Sentence examples for bad principle from inspiring English sources

And that is a very bad principle.

But a situation can sometimes be so severe and urgent that it turns a bad principle into a necessary practice.

Horta-Osório agreed it was a "bad principle" to pay out higher bonuses when profits were down as Barclays had done.

His actions and the subsequent financial-reform law, they say, enshrine the bad principle that some banks are "too big to fail .Mr Geithner says the banks supervised by the Fed withstood the crisis better than most institutions.

Fame and status are bad principles on which to base the rectification of an injustice".

If bad principles should not be followed, then bad relationships should not be maintained.

Problems have been blamed by the industry on bad practice rather than bad principles.

He says that they fall onto the tengu road because, as Buddhists, they cannot go to Hell, yet as people with bad principles, they also cannot go to Heaven.

More than this, the agreement was attacked as bad in principle.

A belief that good can triumph over bad, that principle can defeat expediency.

It would be bad in principle, because it would be an open invitation to companies everywhere to apply for aid to survive the recession.