Sentence examples for principle to doing from inspiring English sources

I'm not totally opposed in principle to doing something just because children might enjoy it, as opposed to what 1970s parents rather grandly term "benign neglect", which meant sitting in a pub garden and using your children as wasp bait to keep them away from your pint (the wasps. And the children).

But that didn't make it right in principle to do nothing.

If new guidelines are being drawn up it is wrong in principle to do this in secrecy".

We know that we need to reduce carbon emissions and how in principle to do it, but not enough is happening.

Is it good business practice in principle to do three cash-outs in one year?" Mr. Knox pursued arbitration because his loan contract barred him from suing Aames.

Some said the company should pay the extra money in accordance with its stated principle to "do the right thing," while others argued that it should refuse, to live up to its dictum to "make a reasonable profit".

He says he was happy to work for LAMH under the now-defunct future jobs fund for the minimum wage in 2010-2011, but refuses on principle to do the same job unpaid.

In 2007, Obama declared that he would meet without preconditions with the leaders of rogue states like Iran and North Korea, adding that it was "a disgrace" that the Bush administration had refused on principle to do so.

You are unable, even in principle, to do so.

Interestingly it can also be shown that averaging is the only extension principle to do so.

"I think that is the right thing in principle to do".