Sentence examples for lacks principles from inspiring English sources

But if Trump lacks principles it is not because no one has ever bothered to present him with any.

"She does not care about the issue at all," he said, echoing critics of Ms. Merkel inside and outside Germany who claim she lacks principles, and favors maneuvers over strategy.

That is not to say that she lacks principles, but whenever her moral convictions become politically inexpedient, she will struggle to find a way to cloak them in vague rhetoric or deflect attention with a compromise that makes the danger go away.

Democracy brings little to the poor, the state is corrupt, politicians lack principles and ideas.

To lack character is to lack principles, to fail to be, as it were, internally motivated.

He repeated his prediction that "Communist China" will end up on the ash heap of history because it is a country lacking principles.

The actress Susan Sarandon, who went so far as to endorse Mrs. Clinton's long-shot anti-war Democratic opponent for her Senate re-election in November, Jonathan Tasini, accused the senator of lacking principles.

Sants said the shift in policy was necessary because the market was influenced by people who lacked principles, and rules needed to be drawn up to keep them in check.

"Every Friday [when they give sermons] they have been bashing the government for not delivering services, accusing them of corruption and for lacking principles and good governance," says Bakhtiar Amin, a human-rights minister in Iraq's first government after the American invasion of 2003.

But if you're lacking principles of transparency, and trapping borrowers in a cycle of high-cost, short-term loans, it becomes a race to the bottom".

Enumerative definitions, lacking principles that explain why what is on the list is on the list, don't, notoriously, apply to definienda that evolve, and provide no clue to the next or general case (Tarski's definition of truth, for example, is standardly criticized as unenlightening because it rests on a list-like definition of primitive denotation; see Devitt 2001; Davidson 2005).