He carefully clothed and fed them, engaged a doctor for them by the year, generally refused to sell them—"I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species"—and administered correction mildly.
Unless bad P.R., with echoes of the fall of Saigon, is the Administration's real concern, there isn't a single persuasive argument, practical or principled, against it.
In contrast, he praised Wikipedia and Github for their principled stands against censorship.
He had no interest in — indeed, he had principled arguments against — conventional grammar; he omits much punctuation, uses his own spellings, and draws on a rich hoard of local dialect (wonderful, four-legged words like "soodle," "croodling," "progg," "sloomy").
She conducted a research study with HBS's Professor Nitin Nohria on leaders who take principled stances against strong systems.
Focusing on TV newsman Edward R. Murrow David Strathairnn) and his producer, Fred Friendly (Clooney), and the risks they took in turning their spotlight on the high-profile, and very dangerous, commie-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s, the film's an intense and inspirational tribute to those who take principled stands against tyrants of all types.
Our government will not become functional again until we have public officials with the skill to improve the trajectory of their offices, with a willingness to take principled stands against powerful interests, and with a commitment to seeing legislative politics as a means to finding common ground with ideological foes through civil exchange for the public benefit.
The governor "was elected because of his principled conservative leadership against Obamacare's overreach," said Slade O'Brien, state director for Americans for Prosperity, an influential conservative advocacy organization.
These are troubling times for Planty Pall, whose principled reserve revolts against the sneaky compromises and dishonesties that coalition politics entail.
I already regret writing that, because I know there are good people, kind people, out there who have what they believe to be principled moral arguments against same-sex marriage.
For a few years after the bailouts of General Motors and the financial sector, objectors in both parties found rowdy but principled common cause against centrists like me who preferred a bloody save to outright economic collapse.
