Republicans say that manual counts are inherently subjective and inaccurate and are against them as a matter of principle.
And in real life, many middle-class voters feel the same way as a matter of principle.
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Or Swartz, an unabashed idealist committed to Internet freedom, may have suicided as a matter of principle.
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Millions of small borrowers mobilised into debtors' associations and refused to pay as a matter of principle.
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For many in society, profit and education are viewed as diabolical opposites, presumably as a matter of principle.
As a matter of principle, they should not accept the use by developed countries of trade sanctions to tackle labor and environmental issues.
"The executive ... confirmed that, as a matter of principle, only one association will be entitled to host a Fifa World Cup, " the global body said in a statement.
In a democracy, however unwise as a matter of principle it may be to do so, government can implement some workable answers to such vast questions when they comport very closely and deeply with popular opinion.
I'm wondering whether as a matter of principle, you think that the courts, the Congress, or the American people need to bless or endorse this policy, or what will they have in judging the policy and letting it go forward?
But such firms still do not want to concede ground on what they see as a matter of scientific principle.
Mr. Obama endorsed the political ruse he calls the Buffett rule, which asserts as a matter of moral principle that millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than middle-class wage earners.
If, the argument goes on, you take concern for everyone's liberty seriously, you will treat the proper scale of government as a matter of circumstance, not principle.
While Jackson and his successors framed economic policy as a matter of limited-government principle, Howe argues that the practical difference was that the Whigs sought to create a coherent national transportation system, while Jackson preferred to dole out projects on an ad-hoc basis to individual states.
Those figures are static or in some countries worsening: given the demography (Romani families are usually large), improving schooling is a matter of urgent European self-interest as well as of principle.
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