What's the difference between principled and uncompromising?

Principled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Principle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
  • (2) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (5) Using the MTT assay and analyzing the data using the median-effect principle, we showed that synergistic cytotoxic interactions exist between CDDP and VM in their liposomal form.
  • (6) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
  • (7) The binding follows the principle of isotope dilution in the physiologic range of vitamin B12 present in human serum.
  • (8) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
  • (9) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
  • (10) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
  • (11) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
  • (12) It seems tragic, then, that so little of these principles transfer over to the container in which the work is done.
  • (13) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
  • (14) The general principles of bypass surgery as they affect the cerebral circulation are reviewed.
  • (15) The interest of this view resides in the resulting general principle of classification and interpretation of all forms of disease, giving rise to an "existenialistic pathology".
  • (16) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (17) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
  • (18) In older stages, the cervical joints rotate according to geometric and lever arm principles.
  • (19) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
  • (20) The principles and practice of aneasthesia for patients having coronary bypass grafts are discussed.

Uncompromising


Definition:

  • (a.) Not admitting of compromise; making no truce or concessions; obstinate; unyielding; inflexible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ACG shows a dynamic clinical picture; it starts in an eye which is initially uncompromised (group A) and progresses to one of two identifiable advanced stages (groups B and C).
  • (2) Bond's brutal, uncompromising vision of south-London thuggery provoked questions about the nature of theatre.
  • (3) We've got to be tough, we've got to be smart, we've got to be uncompromising.
  • (4) The campaigning arm of the Obama administration issued an uncompromising warning to those senators who destroyed the bill.
  • (5) His approach to external (as well as internal) security and defence issues was uncompromising, and on occasion confrontational, the officials said.
  • (6) The Egyptian delegation reasserted its uncompromising rejection,” he said.
  • (7) Abreu's uncompromising rhetoric and style are reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher.
  • (8) That’s why on balance we are unlikely to see any big spike in the immediate aftermath of this.” Bill Hayton, the author of South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia , said the uncompromising rhetoric coming out of Beijing was to be expected.
  • (9) In one sense, the government’s unwillingness to show its hand while at the same time adopting an uncompromising tone is understandable.
  • (10) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
  • (11) Although these results suggest a tenuous relationship between scrapie pathology and the integrity of neurotransmitter systems, it is possible that compensatory neurochemical changes in uncompromised neuronal populations may have masked potentially specific neurotransmitter effects.
  • (12) Perhaps the most uncompromising and outspoken member of the post-Soviet political opposition in Russia , Novodvorskaya died in Moscow on 12 July at the age of 64.
  • (13) One of the two candidates to be the next chair of the Police Federation has questioned whether the government wants a better police force after Theresa May delivered an uncompromising speech at its conference , in which she vowed to break the organisation's power.
  • (14) The Republicans, in the wake of their November election victory, had seemed an unstoppable and uncompromising force, one dedicated to ensuring Obama lost in 2012.
  • (15) For an avuncular former teacher, known for a toothy smile and sometimes nicknamed "Fozzie Bear", it adds up to an uncompromising platform designed to cause palpitations in both the Amsterdam stock exchange and European commission corridors.
  • (16) However, induction of ODC activity by (BU)2cAMP was uncompromised by testosterone.
  • (17) A balloon containing drugs will usually pass spontaneously through an uncompromised gastrointestinal tract.
  • (18) Some critics labelled Sadik-Khan “brusque” and uncompromising; others wondered whether such labels tend to stick more easily to the relatively rare women in positions of power.
  • (19) But he has been uncompromising on contentious issues that separate the church from much of modern society.
  • (20) The Lib Dem leader still enjoys wide support from much of the party membership, particularly for his uncompromising stance on remaining in the EU.