Sentence examples for less principled from inspiring English sources

Aunty Eva's initial motivation was less principled.

He is no more or less principled at the end than he was at the start.

Using it to snipe at former colleagues - which is surely what @UnSteveDorkland has been doing - is altogether less principled.

Recently some, like David Frum, have tried to re-energise intellectual life on the right, but they have been pushed aside by louder, more partisan (less principled) pundits.

In that sense, Monica was perhaps a more pragmatic, more cynical, less principled version of Atika, with the crucial difference that her ultimate sacrifice was involuntary.

MR. DJINDJIC is more practical, less principled and less preachy than Mr. Kostunica, and Washington and the West side with him on Montenegro, as on many things.

Marek Ostrowski, a leading foreign affairs commentator, said it was less a principled stand than a display of Poland's insecurities and pathologies.

Critchlow looks at four leading Republican presidential contenders Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan to show that, behind the scenes, ideology mattered less than principled pragmatism and the ability to build coalitions toward electoral and legislative victory.

Boyle suggests that those who perform the often thankless task of representing criminal defendants may somehow be possessed of questionable ethics, but defending "murderers and other criminals" is far from "less than principled".

He is also the most likely candidate to repair France's tattered relations with America.On the evidence of his career and his campaign, Mr Sarkozy is less a principled liberal than a brutal pragmatist.

Unable to shape these events into a dramatic structure, the director, Camilo Vila, resorts to a meandering tale of random indignities suffered by a lead so bland he comes across less as principled than as stupendously naïve.