There were some conscientious objectors who suggested that the job should be turned down on principle.
We stood on principle of one-man, one-vote and that we believe every vote should be counted.
In 2008, they agreed on principle to resolve the feud by jointly developing gas fields.
One Democrat who voted for the contempt charges said he did so on principle, not politics.
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How do we develop kids who know how to govern themselves based on principle?
Now the agency rejected it on principle, but others just as passionately took the other view.
Many, such as Fidelity, the world's largest retail-fund firm, rule them out on principle.
There's standing on principle, Swayne says, and then there's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Some sports bosses, such as FIFA, the global body that runs football, shun such devices on principle.
Too often organizations, especially those resistant to change, stand on principle when they really are standing on process.
On principle alone Rosa purchased only what was on sale, her eyes lighting up at the word clearance.
The arguments against single-sex education come primarily from civil-rights and women's groups who oppose publicly-funded segregation on principle.
Against bail-outs on principle, it has pushed for some of the biggest (in Turkey and Brazil) in practice.
Some have females attached to them, and she eliminates these on principle: why work harder than you need to?
Since she had eschewed leather on principle (together with meat and alcohol), she would sometimes wear white wellingtons for evening.
Mr. GILLESPIE: Well, let me just say, I think a lot of the members who cast their vote on principle.
Mr Lilley wants to reassure voters that the Tory commitment to health and education is based on principle as well as expediency.
The aides told me they weren't going to stand on principle, that they would have to get a practical way for a recount.
He opposed the war not on principle but for fear of casualties: he had been presented with estimates that ran high as 40, 000.
EU. While European negotiators agree with America on principle, they say it is not worth risking the entire negotiation over a relatively small dispute.
Anne Barlow, an academic at the University of Essex who has interviewed many cohabiting couples, says that few of them reject marriage on principle.
In a democratic age populism appeals to political demagogues greedy to secure a majority of votes against elite rivals who on principle refuse to pander to mob passions.
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The calendar is filled with opportunities to stand on principle.
EchoStar says it opposed the rule on principle, on behalf of consumers' presumed First Amendment right to watch any satellite channel they choose, even if it did not originate locally.
The piece also details a conversion experience: Veteran auto correspondent Stephan Wilkinson confesses that when the Veyron was introduced, he considered it an arrogant status symbol and refused to test-drive it on principle.
If you have good reason to believe that everyone else is gaining a competitive advantage through surreptitious transgressions, then you may conclude that to do otherwise, on principle, would fatally undermine your case.
Many in golf, including former major champions like Nick Faldo and Greg Norman, believe that Woods himself passed up a golden opportunity to redeem his reputation by voluntarily withdrawing from the tournament, on principle.
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Here was a man who had refused, as if on principle, to swing at a bad pitch, and then applied that same steely resolve to his legal situation, at some cost to his dignity.
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