Sentence examples for guided by principle from inspiring English sources

He said he was guided by principle, not politics.

The president who sits at that desk must be guided by principle.

In all of these reforms, we will be guided by principle, pragmatism and progress — not politics.

All day, his aides, allies and even many of his critics said they believed fervently that his words were guided by principle, not polls, and by conscience, not cunning.

And even as Mr. Bush was hailing Mr. Ashcroft as a man of rectitude "guided by principle, not by politics," his opponents were already turning to issues like Mr. Ashcroft's role in persuading the Senate to vote last year against Ronnie White, a nominee for a federal judgeship, to question Mr. Bush.

And if we want the men and women making it to be guided by principle, not politics, it surely doesn't help for journalists to lavish attention on electoral calculations and thereby send our own signal: that we don't expect, and voters shouldn't count on, anything nobler.

Mr. Buckley's politics were guided by principles; Mr. Rove's principles are guided by politics.

But they remain blunt instruments, guided by principles and conditions that differ from those in civilian society.

But the court decided to relax its rules and revisit the cases, "guided by principles of fundamental fairness," Justice Benjamin Miller wrote.

Few people realize, they say, that while some anarchists vandalize corporate property, they are guided by principles that seek to protect life.

A man who had made himself an enemy of this country was given a fair trial, one guided by principles of jurisprudence that have been a source of American pride for more than two centuries.