Sentence examples for some principled from inspiring English sources

In the light of the UK's consistent, material backing for some of western Asia's worst tyrants over many decades, up to and including the present day, the idea that the British state's involvement in Afghanistan was due to some principled commitment to democracy and human rights is one that scarcely passes the laugh test.

Others offered some principled dimensionality reduction and showed high accuracies with the reduced number of bands for a moderate number of classes (e.g., [20 22]).

(If one wants to deny that $L$ is a law one needs some principled, generally accepted basis for this judgment and, as explained above, it is unclear what this basis is).

Some principled techniques used to estimate these parameters include minimum norm quadratic unbiased estimation (Rao 1971), the variance least-squares approach (Amemiya 1977; Demidenko 2004, p. 223), and the Bayesian approaches implemented in the R package BGLR (Rodrıguez and De Los Campos 2012).

Maybe even some principled Tories.

These moves have met some principled opposition from the left.

During his long career in Illinois politics, Burris has encountered many of the state's most influential figures, some of them principled risk-takers and some corrupt rogues.

To some they were principled, moral, and right.

There are arguments against affirmative action, some of them principled, but in the tightly (if not always plausibly) plotted Race, Mamet's animus against it emerges in a succession of revelations that suggest that one of the reasons for its badness is that it can lead to cynical, perniciously race-conscious decisions on the part of both hirer and prospective employee.

As effective as Ms. Quinn's tactics can be, she runs the risk of appearing more pragmatic than principled, leading some critics to question what, precisely, she stands for.

The Salvation Army says: "We would be extremely concerned if a person turned down a mandatory work activity placement with The Salvation Army, because of any doubts they had about the support and welcome they will receive from us," which is thoughtful, but misses the point that some people will have principled objections to working for a faith organisation.