We don't have any principled objection to unions.

That leads to another principled objection; taxes on the wealthy have an effect on those on lower rungs of the property ladder who aspire to climb higher.

Even if there were no weighty principled objections, control orders have fallen over in practice.

She suggested lower socioeconomic groups might be avoiding marriage because they felt they had not achieved the economic security to commit themselves, rather than because of principled objections.