But according to its website, the awards are "also viewed -- perhaps more accurately -- as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring aesthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures".
What if architects such as Hadid were more principled in their choice of clients?
Furthermore the potential for an alternative can be foregrounded by briefly comparing the potential for a more principled response that would seek to re-configure institutions and interests in support of those who possess the skills, tools and knowledge that are at stake in a world wherein living materials can be translated into informatic formats and vice versa.
For all his follies and failings, Santorum is a more plausible presidential candidate than most of this season's alternatives — more experienced than Cain and Bachmann, more substantive and eloquent than Perry, more principled than Gingrich.
Some Joyceans told me that their critiques were more principled.
Sanders voters hint at a different emotion — more principled and impersonal.
In certain ways, Turkey's stance is becoming more principled than it was few years ago.
More principled observers – and more pro-European ones – will have their own, more seriously meant criticisms.
I don't think it makes Coldplay or Radiohead, for example, more principled or more authentic.
