"principled issues" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to problems or concerns that are based on principles, moral values, or ethical standards. Example: The politicians debated the principled issues surrounding gun control and the Second Amendment.
Often they have picked unpopular, if principled, issues upon which to fight.
The row also reflects far wider issues than teacher numbers - for some in local government it raises principled issues about just how councils are funded and whether councils are subservient to central government.
Over the years, this blogger has expressed admiration for some of the principled issues that John McCain stood by when his Republican Party was off course.
Her resignation from the Party, in 1958, came about "not on any principled issue" but only because the C.P. had "got rather drab and useless".
At the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Yu Shuning, the counselor, said that the policy statement was intended to "let the international community, including the United States government, know China's principled issue on Taiwan".
I'll miss Mr. Rather's principled stands on issues like the eulogies for American service members killed in Iraq.
As long as we take a principled position on the issue involved and tell the real story in good faith and with clarity, the truth behind the "veil" knit by the Philippines with the backing of the U.S. will emerge clearly for all to see.
There has been no sustained effort to date by the United States government to build a coalition within the Council that would take consistent principled stands on human rights issues.
If you listen carefully these days, you can hear the sound of Democrats taking principled positions on national issues.
Still, they earned a reputation for being principled on civil rights issues by demanding that black bands always appear with them in concert, even at the expense of losing gigs in the South.
He thinks Mitt Romney was not principled enough on social issues to inspire the conservative base.
