But he is a pragmatist, albeit a principled one.
He is a pragmatist, albeit a principled one.
Others worry that he is not as nice or principled as he seems.
It would also be anathema to the African Union's principled stand against military coups.
A: I have just stated our principled position on the Iranian nuclear issue.
Beyond such pragmatic reasons, there are also principled grounds for focusing on the avoidance of violence before adding other demands.
Rather like the poet himself seems to be, ms Hoffman's book is unpretentious, principled and utterly charming.
After all, unlike the more conciliatory PPP, Mr Sharif has taken a fiercely principled stand against Mr Musharraf.
In principled negotiation, when you reach a deadlock, you search for objective criteria you can use to break the deadlock.
If these principled relations among brain parts hold true, then Boskops would have had not only an impressively large brain but an inconceivably large prefrontal cortex.
The one dissident who could probably recast this debate is Miss Suu Kyi, the international face of principled resistance to military rule.
John McCain has always stood for limited, principled government, and has distanced himself throughout his career from the religious ideologues that have warped Republicanism.
Does this policy of principled disobedience, you might say vindicate or indict Socrates of the charge of corruption and impiety? That has been brought against him?
When he says that his way of life has been private, he means that he has pursued a policy of, let's call it "the principled abstinence " from public life."
It's a tough, tough industry with really high standards, and I'm a little too chubby (seriously) and have about four dozen too many scars to make a living this way even if I weren't so principled.
"The US position here is a principled position — the United States is a Pacific power, it is a trading power, it is a maritime power," US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said in Bali.
JASON REITMAN'S follow-up to his 2007 hit, “Juno”, recalls his first film, “Thank You for Smoking”, an indie succès d’estime about a strangely principled lobbyist working for Big Tobacco.
