It's interesting to note that an enormous amount of apparently principled argument goes on about relatively tiny movements in where the line is being drawn.

But he responded with a principled argument which won over many of his critics.

This is surely the oldest and most principled argument for privatization.

Mr. Willens said: "F.A.S.B. will be able to make a principled argument: 'Look, you wanted us to adhere to original accounting in this.

In these debates, he was able to move members of the Senate to vote his way on the merits of his principled arguments.

"He had the capacity for integration, for principled argument and for tolerance."

Often short on details, the classic liberal response to a principled conservative argument is to accuse Republicans of planning a second Holocaust.

If liberals have a principled argument against Justice Thomas, they're not telling.

ISPs have been making these principled arguments for over a decade.

And I understand the principled argument against bailing out struggling (or, in this case, failing) companies.