Sentence examples for on principled grounds from inspiring English sources

It is this ambiguous status that makes it surprisingly difficult to defend the modern nation on principled grounds.

Dow Chemical also opposes the move, again on principled grounds, and not because it would likely drive up prices for the natural gas it uses in chemical processes.

I've often thought that one reason Galbraith shared his contempt for baseball with me was that his former best friend, my baseball-loving grandfather, had ended their relationship on principled grounds: he believed that Galbraith was wasting his scholarly talent by pursuing Liberal politics and liberal publicity.

The first proposal is equally audacious and likely to fail as the Archbishops seek to placate supporters of women bishops and those opposed on principled grounds.

"Thereafter, the city adopted a pro-cycling policy, albeit on pragmatic rather than principled grounds," Oldenziel writes.

Machiavelli adopted this position on both pragmatic and principled grounds.

Excluding Nazis and Ku Klux Klanners and gay bashers from the zone of speech-toleration may feel good, but it rests on no principled ground, and attempts, like Harel's, to specify such a ground are merely attempts to occlude the entirely arbitrary nature of the classification.

(On anti-reductionism and the Simple View, see Parfit (1984: 210) and Olson (2012).) These arguments exploit so-called "fission cases", which involve an individual that apparently splits into distinct individuals but without principled grounds for identifying one rather than another of the post-fission individuals with the pre-fission individual.

However, accounting for their status does not pose much of a theoretical challenge (see section 4.1) and nowadays their status is rarely explicitly and directly denied on principled moral grounds.

But it is not clear that we have any principled grounds for sorting phenomena into levels.

But, with no great grandstanding, that principled grounding is missing from his popular reputation.