Sentence examples for principled effort from inspiring English sources

He presented this as a principled effort to keep down federal debt, but when a Times reporter asked about his 180-degree turn, he said he had forgotten taking his earlier position until the Democratic leadership reminded him about it over the weekend.

Who wouldn't support such a patriotic, principled effort to put democracy back into the hands of the interests best suited to the arrogance of power -- America's great corporations.

If the countries of the Security Council and regional powers can at last engage a concerted and principled effort to do so, we can put an end to the metastasizing conflicts that are ripping apart so many lives and driving people to flee.

Tourneur reworks the genre's mythic framework with a story that's set in 1874 and is centered on a fabled lawman, Wyatt Earp (played by Joel McCrea, who also starred in Tourneur's similarly defiant Western "Stars in My Crown"), whose principled and humane efforts come into conflict with the town's business interests.

Jerry Bergonzi The first great saxophone trio album of the year is "Three for All" (Savant), a principled, deeply swinging, fiercely intelligent effort from Jerry Bergonzi.

William Lietzau, the top detainee policy official at the Pentagon, argued that the difficulty the administration has had in closing the prison — which it sees as a propaganda symbol for terrorists and as a much more expensive facility to operate than a domestic one — should be considered separately from its effort to develop "principled, credible and sustainable" detention policies.

Hence, there has been a significant effort in recent years to develop principled complexity reduction techniques for naturally occurring complex networks.

"As a principled critic of federal power," he could have said, "I oppose efforts to impose Washington's will on states and private institutions.

Experts are often more persistent and principled in their problem attack, and enlist motivation and confidence in such efforts (Taasoobshirazi and Glynn 2009).

Those efforts had many of the hallmarks of classic Lugar -- principled, idiosyncratic, steeped in details -- but they also carried the added political benefit of being defiantly anti-Obama.

The effort to paint his disinclination or inability to use a computer as quaint and principled is believable to no one who actually uses a computer.