principled

Visibility and effort would help distinguish genuine principled opposition from routine partisan delay.

Republicans and conservative voters oppose the measure by framing it as partisan gamesmanship orchestrated by Governor Newsom rather than a principled response to out-of-state actions.

Instead, congressional pushback − sometimes as extreme as impeachment − can thus be written off not as principled or substantive but as partisan or politically motivated to a greater extent than ever before.

His principled defense of free speech shouldn’t preclude him from excluding the cranks and carnies.

For that moment of principled clarity, Mr. Robbins was criticized by the faculty.