Principle
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1862 examples of Principle in a sentence
The alternative was an elected monarch: the Fifth Republic’s Constitution, ratified 50 years ago this week, was crafted around that central
principle.
Japan’s agenda is simple and straightforward: reform at home and proactive contributions to global peace based on the
principle
of international cooperation.
In principle, Mexico’s economy should be benefiting from the same shale-gas revolution that is providing a huge boost to the US, where natural-gas prices are now less than one-quarter of what Europeans pay.
All members would, in principle, be eligible, but premium rates would be differentiated and established on the basis of quantitative criteria.
And he may endorse the
principle
of collective defense under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, or announce a large arms deal with Poland, as he did when he visited Saudi Arabia.
At the heart of the European project lies a commitment to the single market, the subsidiarity principle, and the “four freedoms,” as well as other traditional liberties such as freedom of speech and religion.
Protesters here and around the country pressed for a specific political change – a new institution to combat corruption– and, in principle, they won.
The Scaremongers of the RoundtableCHICAGO – How often do you see capitalists screaming and even going to court to defend the
principle
that legitimate owners cannot exercise any control over their property?
These people avoided politics on principle, but also because they were afraid of losing their state jobs, or of disappearing altogether.
It also reinforces the
principle
of subsidiarity by giving a stronger say to national parliaments.
In the process, a basic
principle
of modern capitalism – that when debtors cannot pay back creditors, a fresh start is needed – has been overturned.
If this
principle
prevails, no one would ever accept debt restructuring.
Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus – the
principle
that detainees are entitled to challenge their detention in a court of law – during the Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese-American citizens during the early days of World War II.
The organizing
principle
in the new president’s foreign policy is one of not having principled, ideological guidelines.
In an age when self-determination is a hallowed
principle
how is it possible that Taiwan - which has been part of China during only four of the last eleven decades, and has never been under the control of the People's Republic of China - is shunned by every nation when it deigns to wonder aloud why it should not be allowed to go its own way?
In principle, it is easy to avoid currency appreciation: keep the foreign exchange earned from, say, oil exports out of the country.
At the European Union’s pre-Christmas summit, European heads of state and government agreed in
principle
to replace the Luxembourg-based European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which was thrown together practically overnight in May 2010, with a new, permanent European stability mechanism in 2013.
The irony is that Iran is the first to assert the
principle
of non-intervention when it suspects other countries of meddling in its internal affairs.
UN member states should uphold this
principle
by sending a strong signal to Maduro’s government to end the current violence.
Where spending cuts should, in principle, help to dampen inflation, European governments, like that of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, are backtracking on their budgetary commitments.
It is hard to draw a line of
principle
around any area and determine if knowledge of it will provide relevant information about a politician’s moral character.
Economic theory suggests that, in principle, a BAT could push up the value of the dollar by as much as the tax, thereby nullifying its effects on the relative competitiveness of imports and exports.
Given an expanded mandate and a much larger balance sheet, the International Monetary Fund, with advance notification, could in
principle
reliably act to stabilize volatile international capital flows, buying time for more orderly domestic responses.
Erhard's guiding
principle
was simple: there must be guiding principles.
This is the main political project in most free societies, and it is in
principle
acceptable to all major parties.
The introduction of a price-and-rebate system would thus redistribute funds among countries in conformity with the
principle
of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.”
Throughout the Cold War, Japan's national security policy appeared to waver between "UN-first-ism" and an "Alliance-first
" principle.
The politically motivated imposition of high US tariffs on imports from China would fly in the face of reciprocity, contradict the win-win
principle
of trade, and jeopardize the interests of US voters.
In principle, frontier market economies can learn much from this experience.
A new bottom-up approach, whose contours are only just emerging, is predicated on the basic
principle
that the less emissions, the better.
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