Meaning of principled in English

principled

adjective

formal

/ˈprɪn.sə.pəld/ us

/ˈprɪn.sə.pəld/

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always behaving in an honest and moral way:

She was a very principled woman.

based on moral rules:

The Church is taking a principled stand against the conflict.

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principled

adjective

/ˈprɪn·sə·pəld/

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based on principles, or (of a person) having good personal standards of behavior:

She was known among her colleagues as a principled professional.

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In this paper we provide a principled account of the use of domain-specific expressions for representing structured values, propositions and definite descriptions.

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There is no principled way to justify the claim that a person's eternal fate is determined at death.

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Still, altogether they may provide the reader with some clues respecting the lines along which a principled solution to the above questions might develop.

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Our next task is to generate a principled model that separates out groups of control structures into meaningful clusters.

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In particular, what kinds of agent theories and programming models for agent-based systems lend themselves to principled development?

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Constructions are described as learned pairings of form and function that diverge from predictable or principled pairings.

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A more principled alternative is to remove the arbitrary left-to-right order.

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However, there is need to motivate a principled case for a more populous abstract domain.

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What principled reason could there be, then, for thinking that w is a set?

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There is no way of making a principled choice.

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Within the set of morphologically derived place names, there are four principled subtypes.

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The stress patterns of these forms also turn out to be principled.

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Of par ticular interest is his asser tion that even under equivalence, other principled restrictions on code-switching may apply.

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Principled reasons are presented that argue for maintaining a stringent definition of communities of practice, such that more than shared practices or behaviors is required.

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We utilise linguistically-principled assumptions in obtaining features to be used in a machine learning paradigm.

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