Sentence examples for be principled from inspiring English sources

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be principled

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Based on, having or manifesting principles.

  • Governors should be well principled. --Roger L'Estrange.

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Aquinas articulates what appear to be principled metaphysical principles concerning the way in which a predicate can be, in his words, 'taken as being in a subject'.

Wars should be principled, but that doesn't mean blindly following every principle into battle.

"It's easy to be principled in the diaspora," retorts a young woman in Yerevan.

Colleagues say that Panetta, who attends Mass regularly, can be principled to the point of rigidity.

A similar imposition on parasitic bookmakers would also be principled and profitable.

On public policy and ideology, Slattery may be principled to a fault.

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"They are principled and see the Constitution as being among the first principles".

They are principled.

She is principled.

I am being principled.

There are principled objections to it.

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