Sentence examples for principled argument from inspiring English sources

There may be (and Leiter thinks there is) a principled argument for protecting liberty of conscience (so long as claims of conscience do not involve burden-shifting), but "there appears to be no equally principled argument that picks out distinctively religious conscience as an object of special moral and legal solicitude".

And I understand the principled argument against bailing out struggling (or, in this case, failing) companies.

The administration will now have no principled argument to reject them.

Having said that, my opponent possibly wouldn't know a principled argument if it hit him over the head".

As The New York Times' Charles Blow notes, racist rhetoric is already being cheered on as principled argument in the Republican primaries.

As the New York Times' Charles Blow notes here, racist rhetoric is already being cheered on as principled argument in the Republican primaries.

Arguments about judicial restraint are not often principled arguments about jurisprudence; instead, they're politics by other means.

There are principled arguments on both sides, and the issue will likely be decided by the Supreme Court.

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").

They could marshal principled arguments about Britain's status as a global power and deterrence as a guarantor of peace for generations, but that puts them on side with the Tories, and so compromises their integrity in the eyes of left purists.

Such principled arguments could take at least two (non-exclusive) forms.