Sentence examples for principled act from inspiring English sources
"This is a principled act on behalf of Lilco," said John P. Cahill, the State Commissioner of Environmental Conservation.
Apart from aiming for intoxicating popularity, leaders have only one alternative route to unity: to be ruthlessly expedient, papering over divisions as a principled act of leadership.
Do we expect them to vote for their own lost causes as a principled act of faith, stay at home or switch to a mainstream party?
The principled act of offering refuge to the oppressed goes back to the founding of the republic.
Should their behavior be seen as a moral failure, or as a principled act of courage?
As Cameron Crowe's doc makes abundantly plain, however, Pearl Jam were and are a band of conscience – their stand against Ticketmaster prices just one among their principled acts while a mega-selling heavy rock band.
(There is an accompanying app in which young users can win medals and points for emulating principled behavior; an act of kindness, for instance, earns you bronze).
Note the "principled" part.
Another joint bill, S. 1818, the "Principled Rulemaking Act" would codify the language of President Clinton's Executive Order 12866 and President Obama's Executive Order 13563.
It looks not like a decision founded in principled conviction, but an act of weakness and desperation designed to placate restive party members and stem further defections.
Last week, during testimony before Congress, Comey cast the move as a singularly difficult decision and an act of principled self-sacrifice, driven by events far beyond his control.
