A more principled approach fits the power law in a maximum-likelihood fashion.

This can get in the way of a truly principled approach to politics.

Two significant holdings came from Starr, which affected the way the principled approach was to be implemented.

He said the new set of regulations "achieves a principled, balanced approach."

That's a principled approach, but viewers will not stick with it.

Settlements are generally based on a principled approach to the matter rather than strictly as a percentage of the dollar amount at stake.

Instead, it held fast to Washington's more prudent and more principled approach.

His reasons focused on the "principled approach" first developed in the Khan case.

It appears that many principled approaches were taken in the approval process for the 2007 budget proposal.

Still, that principled approach would do more for the court and the nation than the predictable arch-conservatism the chief justice's opinions have shown so far.