Sentence examples for to be principled from inspiring English sources

Aquinas articulates what appear to be principled metaphysical principles concerning the way in which a predicate can be, in his words, 'taken as being in a subject'.

"It's easy to be principled in the diaspora," retorts a young woman in Yerevan.

Americans, Mr. Bush said, "want us to be principled, not partisan".

But they've got to be principled enough to know when not to use it.

"I guess they know the kind of people our programme attracts tend to be principled and hard workers," she says.

Patriarchs such as Sir Edmund and his successor, Sir Ralph, tended to be principled if parochial John Bulls.

Colleagues say that Panetta, who attends Mass regularly, can be principled to the point of rigidity.

On public policy and ideology, Slattery may be principled to a fault.

The point is that there may be no principled reason to exclude this possibility for the future direction of science and that there may be principled reasons to allow it, given the epistemological implications of moral naturalism.

Salman Taseer showed through his condemnation of the blasphemy law and his support for its victims that it is possible to hold public office and be principled and brave.

Our hope is that the nomenclature applied to this increased diversity will be principled, rather than populist.