on principle meaning

• 1. On grounds of (moral) principle
  2. For the sake of obeying or asserting a particular principle of morality or wisdom

• He refused to attend the meeting on principle.
• I refuse on principle.
• We were rarely willing to take a strike, and so we never stood on principle.
• What people wanted was a forthright style of leadership, with more emphasis on principle.
• The declaration elaborates on principles first enumerated by the general assembly in 1962.
• Professor knight has also written three studies of byron, and a book on principles of shakespearian production (1936).
• He should have meet you at the station on principle
• on principles of choosing enterprise accounting policy
• on principle of relative rationality in explaining laws
• Analysis on principle of spectrometer adjusting by diagram

• "on principle" meaning in Chinese: 根据原则,按照原则
• "on principle" meaning in Japanese: 主義｛しゅぎ｝としてI refuse to let you go out late at night on prin...
• "on principle" meaning in Russian: из принципа, из принципиальных соображений из принципа
• "on principle" meaning in French: en principe