principled opposition

Then, too, there is the issue of principled opposition.

Try to imagine an America without principled opposition to the President.

Determined, articulate, consistent principled opposition - from whom will it come?

Later, this Party of principled opposition was called the Evangelicals.

It is not always easy to distinguish a psychotic obsession from principled opposition.

Republicans know the difference between principled opposition and unprincipled posturing.

Practical considerations, rather than principled opposition to slavery appeared to drive his views.

"All the opposition newspapers are being closed, but without a principled opposition, there is no democracy."

Nock was one of the few who maintained a principled opposition to the war throughout its course.

Can anyone see Labour being able to mount a principled opposition to the coalition's reform proposals for elections now?

The Republicans meekly acquiesce, unable to articulate any principled opposition to the nanny state.

Moreover, they held important political office in the divan, and, as the guardians of the Shariah, could also lead a principled opposition to the government.

Principled opposition to the president's agenda has yielded House Democrats much better press coverage than capitulation.

"We understand national interest, and we understand principled opposition to any position, including our own," said one American diplomat who requested anonymity.

The United States has no principled opposition to democratic forms, as long as the climate for business operations is preserved.

In the 1981 election the PSP was rewarded for its principled opposition: it won three seats.

I'll still vote Labour, but am strongly tempted to vote Green, if only because of their principled opposition to the war.

Governor Cuomo's principled opposition to capital punishment has led him to veto death penalty bills for the last 12 years.

Still, props to Will for his principled opposition to a scheme that would, after all, redound to his own ideological and partisan interests.

Still, it seemed to many that the battle-scarred Mankiewicz had abandoned his principled opposition to all such oaths.

That concealment of principled opposition is also a fraud; we should not be fearful of constructively opposing the wrong means to a good end.

His principled opposition to illegal wars wasn't quite enough to threaten the comfort of his own position in the tory party.

So when Republicans avoided debating the surge in the Senate by insisting on a specious "fund our troops" resolution, that was "principled opposition"?

Mr. Koch recently lauded the Governor's "considerable accomplishments" and praised his "principled opposition" to capital punishment.

Since 1972, the Centre Party has also maintained a principled opposition to Norwegian membership in the European Union.