The phrase "principled response" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a response or reaction that is based on values or principles, rather than solely on emotions or personal beliefs. Example: Despite the criticism and pressure, the politician stood by their principles and delivered a principled response to the accusations.
Jamal Khashoggi's murder demands moral courage and a principled response from business leaders.
It is an entirely rational and principled response to policies that have put everyone living and working under US command in grave and unacceptable danger.
These are grim times for Europe on many fronts, but the tough-minded and principled response in Brussels on Friday was the right approach.
Barring a principled response to Mr. el-Sisi, the United States will be further complicit in shoring up his military dictatorship, disenfranchising most Egyptians and fueling the kind of instability that is certain to produce a new generation of extremists.
"Humanitarian assistance is only one small element of the total resources reaching crisis-affected countries, yet [it] continues to play a critical and unique function in providing a principled response to crisis-affected populations".
Stanford's John Hennessy lamented that its undergraduate population had remained nearly level for 35 years and endorsed a modest expansion as a "practical and principled response to current realities".
So what is a principled, pragmatic response?
"There's way more debate on this issue among Americans themselves now than among their elected representatives". On some editorial pages -- such as those of the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal -- the Bush administration's agenda is seen as a principled, necessary response to a rogue regime with weapons of mass destruction.
But because Russia is fundamentally less strong than it likes to pretend, the West's response can afford to be patient as well as principled.One principle the West must insist on is the legitimacy of Georgia's government.
That was a tactical response, not a principled position.
BREAKING: Principled Technologies has issued a lengthy response to criticisms.
