Sentence examples for less principles from inspiring English sources

They're less principles and more vague, comparative ideals.

Some moral theorists seek a single simple basic principle because they assume that simplicity is needed in order to decide what is right when less basic principles or reasons conflict.

The people he has allowed to negotiate, brief and spin on his behalf honour less elevated principles.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

While British papers may operate with less rigid principles than American papers (Dow Jones, for example, has long prohibited journalists from owning shares in companies that they cover), they do carefully watch themselves in one area: libel.

The more the objective function is discontinuous, discrete, nonlinear and non-convex and the more its cost coefficients vary with time, the less the principles of AR can be applied to ER.

One tradition has sought more or less universal principles of aesthetic experience.

They conclude that the move is less about principle than privilege.

Discerning any kind of pattern, much less a principle of causation, is a hopeless task.

(A third is less a principle than an exasperated allergy: she hates cars, and what driving them and parking them does to towns).

Their objections, however, are generally based less on principle than issues of practicality: that businesses, for example, can't agree to new wage structures now, amid such political uncertainty.