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on principle
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on principle also as a matter of principle
according to a moral rule or personal belief He opposed the death penalty on principle.
See also: principle


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The decision to maintain a person in custody is a judicial function with respect to which a legislative, political body should, as a matter of principle, have no say," the text added.
Mattel has pursued this case first and foremost as a matter of principle.
A Conservative policy paper on the NHS says that a Tory government would as a matter of principle make NHS management data freely available to patients, as an alternative to the government's top-down approach to running the NHS.
 
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