Sentence examples for principled attempt from inspiring English sources

By asserting his power over welfare, and tightening the screws on total household benefits, the chancellor was trying to protect the government's reforms from his colleague's bungling.Finally, though a quintessentially tactical move, the chancellor's announcement was also part of the government's principled attempt to sharpen the incentives for work over inactivity.

The whipping up of hatred is part of the normal course of wars; and if the bill were part of a principled attempt to keep Britain out of any war between America and Islam, it would have a defence in principle.

The end result of the philosopher and author of Utopia Thomas More's principled attempts to moderate Henry VIII's ingenious pragmatism is too well known to comment upon.

On the contrary, they led a principled and honest attempt to do what most Americans would want: to extend the middle-class tax cuts for one year.

Stich offers a variety of reasons for thinking that there are fundamental difficulties that will plague any attempt to provide principled criteria for distinguishing cases of reference success from cases of reference failure.

Regarding the 'too many objects' accusation, some point out that perdurantists require even more objects when you count up all the temporal parts, some attempt to establish principled limits on how many objects are required, and others simply accept the multitude.

A hierarchical knowledge structure was characterised as "a coherent, explicit and systematically principled structure, hierarchically organised" which "attempts to create very general propositions and theories, which integrate knowledge at lower levels, and in this way shows underlying uniformities across an expanding range of apparently different phenomena" (1999a: 162, 162).

"It is our principled position," Putin said, in regard to the coup attempt.

And that's why I suspect his attempt to enforce a distinction is strategic rather than principled.

Putin called it their "principled position," adding that Russia is "always categorically opposed to any attempts at anti-constitutional activity".

I am an independent who found the attempt to resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine" more obnoxious than Michael Savage on his worst day and have not met an principled conservative or liberal who didn't see through it.