Sentence examples for held principle from inspiring English sources
The phrase "held principle" is not correct in standard written English
It seems to be a misinterpretation or incorrect combination of words. An example could be: "The organization has a held principle that guides its decisions."
This is a dearly held principle of his, but he can joke about it.
It challenged a deeply held principle that "debts must always be repaid" by showing how, in the case of many debts owed by impoverished countries, the consequences of repayments were creating nearly unimaginable suffering.
But I prefer to emphasize this aspect of the deal: A group of politicians decided to violate a deeply held principle to protect what they saw as the common good.
To claim that a test is sufficiently valid to interpret and use the test scores for its intended purposes, we need to clarify inferences and each inference needs to be supported by a warrant or "a law, generally held principle, rule of thumb, or established procedure" (Chapelle et al., 2008, pp. 6 7).
Righteousness often derives from the sense that a deeply held principle or value has been violated.
This is contradictory to the widely held principle of equal access to and distribution of public health care regardless of social, cultural or economic factors [ 5].
There are very deeply held principles for both sides".
The country is held to ransom if objections are raised to practices that violate deeply held principles.
What if your most deeply held principles aren't deeply held because they're right, but because you're really good at convincing yourself?
Is there a wider loyalty to the party and the country that can conflict with a leader's other deeply held principles?
It's an ideological dispute in which a relatively small band of Republicans in particular is unwilling to compromise on what they consider deeply held principles.
