principled objection

But those who believe that they have principled objections to torture should read it.

In addition to these practical difficulties, there are more principled objections.

There are principled objections to the use of force in every generation, and I credit the good motives behind these views.

If you have a profound and principled objection to this political campaign, you should not work on it.

Another more principled objection may also be levelled at lawyers reluctance to take on board economic thinking.

"I don't understand, then, why they say they have principled objections."

Nightingale had a principled objection to having photographs taken or her portrait painted.

To take care of these religious principled objections, the Dutch system provides a special opt-out clause.

During a call for consensus, the red card indicates the member's opposition (usually a "principled objection") to the proposal at hand.

Then along comes some wholly unexpected tour de force, and prejudices are shattered; principled objections seem petty.

But he didn't have any principled objections to patents on horse training, speed dating, or methods of teaching antitrust law.

These principled objections were taken up by the General's political opponents, who dusted off the old charge of plebiscitarianism.

Opponents always try to delay, in the hope that a wider public will share their principled objections, or that something devastating will be found.

The elected leaders pushing to overturn New York City's term limits say they are motivated by principled objections to the 15-year-old law.

"Right now, the same principled objections which existed a year ago exist now," Mr. Brodsky said.

And you do not seem to have a principled objection based on rights for the disabled as much as a desire simply to get him to shul.

In fact, since many of the principal Fascist ideologues adhered to actual idealism, they had principled objections to attributing human behavior to material-biological-causes.

That said, if you have a profound and principled objection to affirmative-action programs, you are free to eschew any mention of race in your application and essay.

(If one accepts the view that Muggletonians had principled objections to evangelism, then Saddington's book should never have existed at all.)

(See what happens now if you voice any principled objection to the cruel and cynical "Cosi Fan Tutte.")

In this area he was successful in siding with Kaunitz in Realpolitik, undertaking the first partition of Poland in 1772 over his mother's principled objections.

And if the second argument were valid, Americans could have no principled objection to the methods of the Sandinistas or others who would subordinate political rights to revolutionary programs of reform.

The action invites turmoil, not stability, and calls for clear, principled objection from the United States, one of the parties to which President Chun made his promises of democracy.

In 1682, the companies merged, making Dorset Garden's technical resources available to Dryden, who rapidly got over his principled objection to the superficiality of "spectacle" and "empty operas".

Collins, harboring principled objections to marriage, Ms. Peters says, seems to have been an affectionate juggler of all parties, a loving father and an equitable distributor of legacies.