The Clinton administration proposed raising the tobacco tax, an unfair tactic given Congress's principled commitment to protecting our national right to inhale large quantities of nicotine.

But a principled commitment to provide a constitutionally protected service could not stop the assassin's bullet that tore through his kitchen window and into his back Friday night.

Experts on the banking industry were quick to point out that while the four financial institutions presented their positions today as principled commitments to social responsibility, their stances also reflected their financial interests.

This is Mr. Bellow's provocatively contrarian claim: today's nepotism is good because it combines an admirable devotion to family with a principled commitment to merit.

RNC/Life will continue to work to protect and defend the Republican Party's principled commitment to legal protection for all innocent human beings, from conception until natural death.

However, the watering down of a basic and principled commitment, within Labour or any other libertarian party, especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality, could prove deeply discrediting.

A Liberal government knows it has to balance principled commitments to be a good citizen abroad, with defense of its citizens at home.

We need to balance a principled opposition to the weaponization of space-in the future-- with an equally principled commitment to participate in North American air defense-right now.

I am equally proud that the British Labour Government is the first British Government to have a principled commitment to the United Kingdom's membership of the single currency.

But if it does so, it won't be because of a principled commitment to federalism.