high-principled

"So people are a little more willing to be high-principled democrats, even if it might cost them a seat or two."

Tunisia Vote Stands as Test for the Region Charles Levinson 2011

Hurrah for Rupert Murdoch and his high-principled publishing house!

For reals? Roger Sutton 2008

She was a high-principled woman, '' says Fray, who insisted to NEWSWEEK that he had no intention of accepting the offer to buy votes.

Bill And Hillary's Long, Hot Summer 2008

Another debt, which I pay most willingly, I owe to an unknown correspondent (a lady), 4 who favoured me with the history of the upright and high-principled female, whom, in the Heart of Mid – Lothian, I have termed Jeanie Deans.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

'Ah, noble Edgar! just, high-principled, and firm!' half pronounced

Camilla 2008

" It is worth nothing the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political thought, astute and pragmatic, unafraid of experiment, and --this is significant--"convinced of man's power to improve his condition through the use of intelligence""---Barbara Tuchman

"An ambiguously worded political compromise written hundreds and hundreds of years ago." Ann Althouse 2007

His wisdom had in truth consisted in his capacity to feel that Florence was a nice girl, clever, well-minded, high-principled, and full of spirit — and in falling in love with her as a consequence.

The Claverings 2005

Dale, asking herself sundry questions, with an idea of being high-principled as to her duty in that respect.

The Small House at Allington 2004

But he is thoughtful and high-principled, and has a method and a purpose in the use which he makes of his money.

Phineas Finn 2004

The setting ranged from rural villages to imperial cities, from the emperor himself to starving peasants, from high-principled Buddhists to unprincipled prefects.

Outlaws of the Marsh adamosf 2004