Sentence examples for be more principled from inspiring English sources

His poll also found that over half of Clacton's voters believe Carswell to be "more principled than most politicians", with two thirds stating that they intended to vote for him because he is the "best candidate" – reasoning slightly removed from the usual 'dissatisfaction with mainstream politics' one given by Ukip supporters.

He turns his approach to those issues into proxies for his governing style, which he says would be more principled and less cynical.

Supporters of the truthfulness campaigns say that the very nature of the courts means that they must be more trustworthy than the other branches of government, and that judicial candidates must therefore be more principled than candidates for other elected office.

Under four in ten thought a woman president would be more principled than her male counterpart.

Some Joyceans told me that their critiques were more principled.

What if architects such as Hadid were more principled in their choice of clients?

"I don't buy the argument that the old Goldman was more principled and less greedy," said Arthur Levitt, a Goldman adviser and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

What would he and his company gain from being more principled?

No act was more principled than giving up massive boxing purses to defy the draft, Arum said.

This ranking scheme captures the intuition that the rank of a module should increase with its size and density, but from a theoretical point of view it is more principled than the ranking criterion used by Bader and Hogue (2003), which is the product of size and density.

"I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled".