How to Use on principle in a Sentence

on principle

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• But on principle, the bacon-and-sweets craze has gone too far.
  — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
• If there’s a price presented, send your regrets on principle.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Falklands War was fought on principle more than anything else.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
• The union believes housing is a human right and landlords, on principle, should not exist.
  — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2022
• Karp was so charming that early Gawker went after him on principle.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• My father was against the green card and, on principle, dual citizenship.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Sara and Xanthi rejected the house on principle.
  — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
• Carter was not just a fleeting appointee on a a long roster of office holders or a bureaucrat afraid to take a stand on principle.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• When standing on principle and pursuing equal rights seemed fraught with peril, Jean’s work served as a lodestone for me.
  — Maryanne George, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2021
• That line of argument hit a wall on Wednesday with senators opposed to the idea on principle.
  — Mark Dee march 26, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2026
• Though egg salad is simple on principle, there are still decidedly good ones, bad ones, and heavenly ones.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
• People who oppose horse racing on principle often point to such occurrences while making their case.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Wealthy non-tax-paying institutions should pay taxes on principle.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 13 Dec. 2023
• Bellwald’s conviction about rebuilding was based in part on principle.
  — Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
• Common Ground, however, said the agency should do so, on principle, to hear from its residents.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
• And the divide by age is not as simple as younger voters want Democrats to stand on principle and older voters want compromise.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
• Some legislators over the years have voted against every specialty plate on principle.
  — Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 22 Feb. 2025
• Some of the girls were hired as servants in the homes of higher-status Burghers, though Rustin refused on principle to consider it.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
• However, the rules on principle are flexible, so the trust document could provide almost any type of standard.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• What seems most unlikely, however, is that top players will band together to stiff-arm the Saudis on principle.
  — Beth Ann Nichols, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022
• Yet the clinic would benefit greatly from such a large donation and wouldn’t thank us for turning down the hospital’s money on principle.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• McGovern went to trial on principle; the seventh person’s trial will take place in Iowa City this spring.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• Yet as Taliban gains blot out more and more of the Afghan map, his death is also a case study in the extreme peril of standing on principle in defiance.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2021
• Trump’s second term has bizarrely veered into territory his predecessors would have eschewed on principle.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
• Others feel conflicted, caught between wanting to stand on principle and wanting to support a Black woman who has worked tirelessly for her seat at the table.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 22 Sep. 2025
• Conservatives defend the Senate, ostensibly on principle — but come on, it's rigged in their favor.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 29 Oct. 2021
• So, there is something to be said for standing on principle, waiting for cooler heads to prevail, and making the arguments to bring people around to these fundamental values.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2023
• Not one of the recent cancellation attempts has been justified, and NR has stood on principle on every occasion.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
• Many Republicans oppose short-term funding measures on principle, and also have misgivings about voting to increase the debt ceiling.
  — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
• Other players objected to the PSN account requirement based on principle.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 6 May 2024