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‘A male may have principles.’

[⟨det male.nhave.v ⟨det (plur principle.n)⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Then he was lured by the siren song of DC and became one more boot licking lackey of the Bushoviks, willing to piss on his principles in order to please his new masters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“Garion doesn’t swear as often as Enfys does, but she’s corrupted his principles more than a little bit and the conversation so far more than justifies using as much profanity as he can manage – and it helps to say something on the exhale when punching your own door, as Garion very obviously just did.
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In Wikipedia:

The fifth edition, published on 10 February 1869, incorporated more changes and for the first time included the phrase “survival of the fittest”, which had been coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer in his “Principles of Biology” (1864).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Right now, with everybody – everybody Republican that is – screaming for Bob Loux’s head, the Gube just might take it into his brain that spending money on that anti-Yucca Nuke office Loux is director of goes against his principles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Whether or not I agreed with his principles, I would not want an American president who acts like that, and I think most of the electorate would concur.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Democrats accused McCain of ignoring his principles to appeal to core Republican voters; aides rejected that, saying the vote was consistent with his long – expressed view on how best to prosecute the war.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Then he was lured by the siren song of DC and became one more boot licking lackey of the Bushoviks, willing to piss on his principles in order to please his new masters.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He recited his principles, which cover everything from taxes to education to health care.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That and the constant compromising his principles for someone who didn’t always act like it was worth it.
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In Wikipedia:

Ichimonji originally served as Hongou’s enemy, and later as a hesitant ally who fights to uphold his own principles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And the answer is not very clear cut (see this post where I say that we may have to adopt Kevin Kelly’s principles to the Mobile ecosystem).
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In Wikipedia:

He was tireless in presenting and publicising his conclusions on both sides of the Atlantic, though recently to the present writer he observed that his own major failure was in effectively communicating his principles to the users of statistics.
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In Wikipedia:

In his work on “La Psychologie anglaise contemporaine: l ’cole exprimentale” (1870), he showed his sympathy with the sensationalist school, and again in his translation of Herbert Spencer’s “Principles of Psychology”.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

2. In the years after the rediscovery of Mendel’s work at the turn of the 20th century geneticists found exceptions to and extensions of his principles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Shortly before Obama entered Harvard, he praised McKnight and his organizing principles in an article titled “After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois.”
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In the British National Corpus:

“We must aim to raise the baseline of our support by making John Major’s principles even more accessible.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So ever willing to experiment on myself I’ve been applying many of his principles for the last week or so.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

While Senator Obama is certainly a patriotic American, he has not shown the courage to stick by his principles through thick and thin.
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In the British National Corpus:

For, just as the individual has the moral right not to kill in violation of his own moral principles, a right recognised by law in this country since 1916, so also it can be argued that he has the right not to be required to contribute through his taxes towards the maintenance of a professional army equipped with weapons of mass destruction to kill on his behalf.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.