Sentence examples for out of principled from inspiring English sources

He resisted participating in them for far too long out of principled cheapness — which is kind of an oxymoron.

Although he objected to being singled out, Idriss's decision not to comply was as much a result of his uncertainty as an act of principled defiance.

But what of principled ethical objections?

This is where the concept of principled innovation comes in.

In the book's more than six hundred pages, he has little to say about the industrial murder of millions of Jews, while staking out a principled anti-Zionism.

"What matters is that Mr Miliband set out a principled position that could cause him a lot of trouble," he says, adding that the Conservatives will be put on the defensive because their funding will be unreformed.

If he loses the election, why not go out in a blaze of principled glory?

He is promising to wage an elbows-out campaign that will paint the mayor as an out-of-touch billionaire whose reputation as the principled antipolitician was tarnished during the pitched battle over term limits.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz's play Her Naked Skin was originally to have had a different title, while even we at the (of course highly principled) Out of Joint, suggested to Stella Feehily that Dreams of Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll might be a more appealing title than Dreams of Violence.

He did not do this trivially, for the cheap thrill of mimicry, but rather out of a principled mistrust of originality and the historical construction of literary heroes.

Although it does sort of take the steam out of his principled refusal to accept any money from the Olympics until his turnaround was successfully completed.