It would be nice to call this a "principled" stand but it is precisely the lack of any aesthetic principle by which creativity can be judged that has reduced the benchmark of appreciation to breaking taboos and upsetting people.
To put it another way, destruction itself is the principle by which the universe operates".
Is there some principle by which you do this kind of adaptation?
More important is the principle by which an editor anticipates the spectator's line of inquiry.
The BBC showed a paragraph that described the implosion principle by which a nuclear fission weapon is triggered.
It is the political equivalent of stare decisis, the principle by which judges generally respect precedents, or things already decided, to maintain stability and social order.
One of the problems we have with the administration and civil liberties is that it is very difficult to articulate a principle by which we are working.
In its normal Greek philosophical sense, logos was the cosmic principle by which creation was mediated – the personification of truth and wisdom.
That is also the principle by which he has lived as an artist, in a vocational spirit much against the attention-deficit temper of his times.
Swartz apparently sought to redistribute the papers online because he objected to the principle by which JSTOR paid publishers rather than the papers' authors.
Many have questioned the fundamental principle by which the United States, alone among developed nations, taxes its citizens according to their nationality, rather than their residency.
