principled
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definition
adjective
a principled politician
(of a person or their behavior) acting in accordance with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong.
a coherent and principled approach
(of a system or method) based on a given set of rules.
example
Passionate and 'principled' democrats were slow to recognise the dangers posed by totalitarianism 60 years ago.
When you must make decisions about marriages, you are obliged to be consistent and 'principled' .
Particular mention should be made of Mike Kelly, who remains the most 'principled' man it's ever been my good fortune to meet.
What a doughty, 'principled' fighter for pensioners that McLennan is.
I respect her, because at least she is 'principled' - she believes in what she has put up here.
Duff sometimes behaved like a cad to his women; in politics, he was a model of 'principled' behaviour.
As a result, his former image as a political operator was replaced by that of a 'principled' leader.
He is an independent minded and 'principled' man, who is very different from most private eye characters.
Whistleblowers are highly 'principled' people who are in the job because they thought they could do it in an ethical manner.
It has won a considerable global readership as the result of its 'principled' approach.
He has paid a significant price for his 'principled' approach to politics.
The welcome sign of a 'principled' politician is the desire to risk everything for change.
He was one of the very few people of 'principled' honesty that I had met, thus becoming an inspiration to me, and will be deeply missed.
More specifically, toward whom should he have looked as an example, this deeply moral and 'principled' man?
Worse, what is the 'principled' basis by which we weight the importance of the properties in the bundle?
It is impossible to base 'principled' politics on the ‘bad man’ theory of history.
Little Women is a cheerful, wholesome account of the daily life of a highly 'principled' family.
The point of a radical move to restore the rule of law is that it offers both parties a 'principled' basis for agreement.
This demonstrates again a pragmatic rather than a 'principled' approach.
There is the example she set, her very 'principled' approach to life which she demonstrated, rather than preached.
He's a pretty 'principled' guy and isn't interested in the money - which is just as well because we're not paying him.
It says that there is no 'principled' way to decide that some limitations on land use are takings and others are not.
The following statements are admitted under the 'principled' approach to hearsay.
I think you have to deal with it in a bit more 'principled' way than that.
If he maintains such a 'principled' approach in the subsequent campaign, I thought, he might even be able to turn public opinion around.
One therefore has to decide which should be given priority in any given situation and one should do this in a 'principled' way.
It would help if the government actually knew what it wanted, and held a 'principled' position one way or the other.
However, she said, she was taking a 'principled' rather than a technical decision.
As such cases show, if we give weight to both equality and utility, we have no 'principled' way to assess their relative importance.
If he was 'principled' at all and believed that these things should be done, he would have spoken out.
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