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Indeed, it would be naive not to ask whether retaining a member that is challenging the very
principle
of European integration would really be in the EU’s best interests.
The most important is the
principle
that Palestinian neighborhoods (in which 99% of the Palestinian population lives) will be under Palestinian control, and Israeli neighborhoods (in which 99% of the Israeli population lives) will remain under Israeli control.
Trump’s surrogates, for their part, use television appearances and social media to restate the falsehoods, seemingly operating under the
principle
that if you repeat something often enough, it will become true.
A cardinal
principle
of contemporary medical ethics is that patients have the right to make this type of decision, and that physicians are obligated to follow their wishes.
As Wolfers explains,“The
principle
of comparative advantage tells us that gains from trade are largest when your trading partner has skills and endowments that are quite different from yours.
This was particularly audacious, for it required us to abandon the supreme Hippocratic
principle
according to which it is unprofessional to injure a healthy person.
This material incentive is in clear breach of the
principle
that organs should be distributed according to need only.
For even if we believe that buyers and sellers of organs can in
principle
enter the transaction on the basis of free choice, none of them has chosen to face the underlying dilemma in the first place.
And herein lies the most important
principle
that must guide eurozone governance reform: changes must be pursued alongside political reforms that strengthen the legitimacy of decisions involving risk sharing among countries.
Tocqueville focused on the consequences of the destruction of caste as a
principle
of social and political order.
But there is no reason in
principle
that Chinese planners cannot follow the same model in reorienting the economy to a more domestic-demand-led growth strategy.
On one hand, it is important to resist Putin’s challenge to the fundamental
principle
that states should not use force to violate one another’s territorial integrity.
Though sanctions are unlikely to change Crimea’s status or lead to withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Ukraine, they have upheld that principle, by showing that it cannot be violated with impunity.
Although many states now hide behind an alleged universal
principle
of inviolable state sovereignty, for example, would the international community really want to go back to the old model where states did whatever they wanted to their citizens within the confines of their own borders?
The arguments now are not about the principle, but about how to apply it.
National self-determination, the
principle
that US President Woodrow Wilson put on the international agenda in 1918, is generally defined as the right of a people to form its own state.
Somalia claimed that the self-determination
principle
should allow Somalis in northeastern Kenya and southern Ethiopia to secede.
Self-determination turns out to be an ambiguous moral
principle.
Wilson thought it would bring stability to Central Europe; instead, Hitler used the
principle
to undermine the region’s fragile new states in the 1930s.
Given that less than 10% of the world’s states are homogeneous, treating self-determination as a primary rather than secondary moral
principle
could have disastrous consequences in many parts of the world.
Before invoking self-determination as a moral principle, one must heed the diplomatic version of the Hippocratic Oath: Primum non nocere (first, do no harm).
This outside control is the
principle
cause of the present tragedy, which essentially constitutes a “proxy war.”
This is a great tragedy, not just for obvious humanitarian reasons, but also because R2P introduced an important principle: that sovereignty entails obligations as well as rights, and that when these obligations go unmet, governments forfeit some of their sovereign rights.
Such a
principle
is needed in a world where much of what occurs inside countries affects the interests of others beyond their borders, often in fundamental ways.
This
principle
of regional solidarity extends to Morocco’s deployment of military hospitals not only in Mali but also in other conflict zones, such as one in Jordan that serves Syrian refugees.
In principle, declining labor-force participation should be a problem in the eurozone, too, given the prolonged period of very high unemployment that many European workers have faced.
This is a time for steely
principle.
In the fields of both law and politics, I have consistently and clearly supported the
principle
of non-discrimination.
According to this principle, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, and Alcide de Gasperi – three of the EU’s founding fathers – would not measure up.
Nearly nine years later, in 2013, an agreement “in principle” was reached.
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