party principle
Example Sentences
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But the draft does not specify such, and party leaders here said the issue is too granular to be addressed in what is intended to be a broad statement of party principle.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2012
I have read your platform and its declarations of party principle and find them such as I can heartily approve.
From Time Magazine Archive
They would have been acting on party principle, since the Davis-Bacon Act was a pro-labor measure originally passed under Republican auspices.
From Time Magazine Archive
In behalf of justice, as well as to preserve what he still fondly cherished as a vital party principle, he determined by every means in his power to secure a fair election.
From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George
Where party principle is involved, I will be found to be a Republican, but in all other respects I hope to be able to act free from party bias.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren
