principled
de principios
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.
translation of 'principled'
adjective
de principios
example
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.
It has won a considerable global readership as the result of its 'principled' approach.
As such cases show, if we give weight to both equality and utility, we have no 'principled' way to assess their relative importance.
What a doughty, 'principled' fighter for pensioners that McLennan is.
Kevin was 'principled' , courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
He is an independent minded and 'principled' man, who is very different from most private eye characters.
He saw him as a 'principled' man who openly spoke out his thoughts on any issue of the nation, but never wishing to malign or discredit others.
Whistleblowers are highly 'principled' people who are in the job because they thought they could do it in an ethical manner.
Little Women is a cheerful, wholesome account of the daily life of a highly 'principled' family.
We must have 'principled' leaders who define all of life by principles and not expediency.
If courts are to intervene by the imposition of public law standards upon a private body they must adopt a careful and 'principled' approach.
I respect her, because at least she is 'principled' - she believes in what she has put up here.
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.
They showed that far from being apathetic, they are 'principled' , dynamic and determined to make a difference.
However, she said, she was taking a 'principled' rather than a technical decision.
When you must make decisions about marriages, you are obliged to be consistent and 'principled' .
Duff sometimes behaved like a cad to his women; in politics, he was a model of 'principled' behaviour.
More specifically, toward whom should he have looked as an example, this deeply moral and 'principled' man?
There is the example she set, her very 'principled' approach to life which she demonstrated, rather than preached.
One therefore has to decide which should be given priority in any given situation and one should do this in a 'principled' way.
The Greens support taking a 'principled' approach to this legislation.
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.
Worse, what is the 'principled' basis by which we weight the importance of the properties in the bundle?
The point of a radical move to restore the rule of law is that it offers both parties a 'principled' basis for agreement.
If he was 'principled' at all and believed that these things should be done, he would have spoken out.
This demonstrates again a pragmatic rather than a 'principled' approach.
Passionate and 'principled' democrats were slow to recognise the dangers posed by totalitarianism 60 years ago.
These five justices have all the right in the world to have their own 'principled' way of interpreting the constitution.
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