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Mr. Clinton said it is important to achieve what he called principled compromise in a time of divided government, without which he said there would be paralysis.

Bill Clinton: Tax Deal Best That Can Be Achieved 2010

Mr. Clinton said it is important to achieve what he called principled compromise in a time of divided government, without which he said there would be paralysis.

Bill Clinton: Tax Deal Best That Can Be Achieved 2010

And then you have got what I call the principled objectors.

CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2009 2009

A certain principled conservative I have a good deal of respect for regards Niebuhr as a prophet.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote it after all « Dating Jesus 2009

At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast hours before the summit, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich urged Republicans to engage in "principled, responsible, bipartisanship."

Summit settled little but showed a lot 2010

He had a completely different set of dumb-ass reasons for opposing the Civil Rights Act. You see the same thing in principled pro-Sweat Shop (heh) pundits.

Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No” 2009

The turn has been interpreted as tactical; accusations of political expediency turned on the thought that her earlier concern for the sanctity of human life had not been grounded in principled pacifism.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

Of course the joker in the deck is the word principled before libertarian, and, as many online commentators have noted, Rand Paul is a bit more inclined to waffle on an interventionist foreign policy than is his father.

Robert Scheer: Who's Afraid of Rand Paul? 2010

All of the Axial Age faiths began in principled and visceral recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time.

The Great Transformation: Summary and book reviews of The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong. 2006

Age faiths began in principled and visceral reaction against the unprecedented violence of their time.

The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong: Questions 2006