Sentence examples for lacking in principles from inspiring English sources

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Bob Hill did not know what to expect when he signed as coach of the Fordham men's basketball team last season, but he did not like what he found: a team lacking in principles, values and discipline.

She defended "pluralist" politics in the face of strong criticism of her party from Labour MP Emily Thornberry, who accused Lib Dems of being "nasty" and dishonest in their campaigning tactics and lacking in principles.

This behavior is however not new for congress -- it has been lacking in principles for years.

I'm sure he's a decent guy, who loves football, and keeps his word, but Goodell's biggest problem is that he's acted like a bad politician, lacking in principles.

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And if you are only populist, responding to every whim of the public, you look rootless and lacking in principle.

Chief among them, Republicans said, would be whether the country wants to entrust its security to a Democratic challenger that the White House is busily portraying as too liberal and lacking in principle.

But ours is an age of creepy demagogues, and of cowards who are too frightened or too lacking in principle to fight against the creepy demagogues, and of too few people who do have courage; and America is like that now.

Randy Mastro, a deputy mayor under Mr. Giuliani, addressed the suggestion that Mr. Giuliani was lacking in conservative principles, making the point that Mr. Giuliani had reduced crime, welfare rolls and taxes.

"A person acts as if he were totally lacking in moral principle and unhampered by intelligence.

As a result, the practice, known as conjoint therapy, was blasted in psychology journals as "seriously lacking in empirically tested principles" and a "technique in search of a theory".

"Islamic art as a whole," he states, "is seen by the great majority of art historians as essentially decorative, and lacking in any underlying principles". Only Arthur Upham Pope, author of the magisterial 15-volume Survey of Persian Art and Scholarship, is let off the hook.

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