Principle
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1862 examples of Principle in a sentence
Promoting respect for human rights was, after all, the guiding
principle
behind the UN's establishment.
Moreover, the
principle
of sovereignty itself needs redefinition.
The
principle
of non-intervention in a state's internal affairs was never absolute, and globalization confronts it with a radical challenge.
One reason that the
principle
of non-interference is so critical is that African countries, like China, have long suspected a distinct Western bias in the conception of “fundamental human rights.”
A central bank’s job is to uphold in practice Say’s Law – the
principle
that output is balanced by demand, with neither too little demand to purchase what is produced (which would cause unemployment) nor too much (which would cause inflation) – because Say’s Law certainly does not hold in theory.
In principle, low post-crisis growth in the advanced countries need not impede poor countries’ economic performance.
Job placement would remain a problem, but the
principle
is sound: the world should learn from its most popular sport.
The second
principle
is subsidiarity, which holds that decision-making should be decentralized whenever possible.
The last
principle
is congruity, to ensure that decision-makers are accountable for the outcomes of their decisions.
Moreover, coexistence and cooperation among the various communities is enshrined as a basic
principle
in Lebanon’s constitution.
In terms of drawing up a new constitution, the Lebanese
principle
of government by power sharing must be a central pillar.
OXFORD – While austerity in Europe faces increasing social resistance, in
principle
it has the merit of simplicity.
Major states with elaborate technical and human resources could, in principle, create massive disruption and physical destruction through cyber attacks on military and civilian targets.
With its behavior in Ukraine and elsewhere, Russia has challenged what had been a mostly stable European order founded on the legal
principle
that territory may not be acquired by military force.
The two Kims agreed in
principle
to work toward reunification by making joint efforts "independently" of outside influence, and to find common ground between the South's idea of a North-South "commonwealth" or confederation, and the North's idea of Alow-level federation".
This approach would be consistent with the principle, which US President Barack Obama highlighted when announcing the latest round of sanctions against Russia last month, that Ukraine must be permitted to “chart its own path.”
In principle, credit ratings are based on statistical models of past defaults; in practice, however, with few national defaults having actually occurred, sovereign ratings are often a subjective affair.
The CFTA should enshrine the
principle
of “Made in Africa,” even as it recognizes that some inputs will necessarily be sourced from abroad.
A market economy must rest on the economic
principle
of profit and loss.
In principle, all of Russia's political elites appear to have - or pretend to have - resigned themselves to a political landscape with Putin alone on the mountaintop and everyone else consigned to the valley below.
Indeed, as a matter of principle, it is not clear why monetary policy and fiscal policy should be treated so differently, with one completely delegated to a bureaucratic agency and the other completely discretionary and in the hand of politicians.
People not just in France, but around the world, want to show their solidarity with the victims and support the fundamental
principle
of free speech.
Support for the
principle
does not demand endorsement of the practice.
The fundamental
principle
underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship.
Anti-blasphemy laws not only violate that principle; they can easily be abused as a tool of political power and impoverish their societies by imposing a code of rigid conformity.
The provision, adopted to satisfy countries worried about their own potential breakaway regions (Chechnya in Russia, and Tibet in China), violates the principle, engraved in common sense if not in international law, that genocide nullifies sovereignty – that a state cannot seek to extinguish a people and yet insist on governing them.
Whatever the merits of the US position on the Global Compact process, the
principle
of national sovereignty remains critical to any politically feasible migration policy.
In Europe’s case, the European Union’s fiscal rules are at issue, and the Commission – in
principle
the EU’s watchdog – should bark loudly when they are flouted.
The second big challenge that the IMF identifies – excess capacity in the eurozone banking system, and the related problem of non-performing loans – is also, in principle, solvable.
And, if it were really possible to ensure that the wealth levy would be temporary, such a tax would, in principle, be much less distortionary than imposing higher marginal tax rates on income.
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