Next, he claimed not to have taken a side at all, thus losing credit from those who admired what they thought was a principled stance.

An experience like that seems to lie behind the principled stance Mullen has been taking.

He said that he took a principled stance not to take any front bench post unless elected to it.

It is not only the principled stance of our cadres that matters.

Brinkman, for his part, points to his principled stance on the issues as the reason lobbyists don't like him.

Do the crime, do the time - a principled stance, but how far can it go?

Notwithstanding his father's principled stance, eventually the two began to collaborate in earnest.

I am full of admiration for the firm and principled stance they are taking against religious censorship," he said.

I hope that we will not jeopardise the entire directive on account of a too principled stance on one point.

Our first option is to adopt a principled stance and register Parliament's dissatisfaction by rejecting the common position.