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In principle, low-income individuals and families could be compensated through lump-sum transfer programs.
As recently as 2008, Turkey’s highest court considered shutting down the AKP for violating that principle.
After laying claim to 80% of the South China Sea, it has just established a so-called air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, raising the odds of armed conflict with Japan and threatening the principle of freedom of navigation of the seas and skies.
In this sense, they ignore the fact that the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact has been in principle an important component of political union, not its substitute.
So what we are seeing is an Israeli prime minister team up with the ideological descendants of European fascists to attack a Holocaust survivor whose philanthropy fulfills the principle, called tikkun olam, that Jews must act in ways that improve or repair the world.
Republicans, trying to give voice to many working Americans’ ambient uneasiness with rising government expenditures, as well as to the growing anger of the working rich, find it easier to defend a principle than a particular constituency.
The United States, the European Commission, and the EU’s main member states all agree, at least in principle, that Ukraine needs quick and substantial financial help in order to be able to resist Russian aggression.
Finally, some, especially in Europe, fear new and unfamiliar technologies in general; adhering to what is sometimes called the “precautionary principle,” they place the burden of proof on the innovation, rather than symmetrically on the status quo.
The precautionary principle is hard to dislodge.
The good news is that, in China, much of the accumulated leverage has indeed been used to fund investment, which in principle creates assets that will augment future growth.
Mainstream thinking, known as the Chinese School, insists, with the government, on “Marxism with Chinese characteristics” as the bedrock principle of China’s foreign policy.
For example, the Chinese government reiterated its core diplomatic principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs during the Libya crisis, yet China accepted the imposition of United Nations’ sanctions on Muammar Qaddafi’s government.
They were generated at the margin of an age with a much more liberal orthodoxy and picked up when the time was ripe by politicians who have found in them a useful organizing principle.
However, in a world of strategic competition, international commerce can be, and usually is, an instrument of policy, and its use in that context should not be denied simply because it breaches the sacred principle of free trade.
That is why it is increasingly being rejected in favor of an agro-ecological model based on the principle of “food sovereignty.”
The starting point must be a simple, fundamental principle: Europe should not take sides.
During previous rounds of negotiations, the Palestinian Authority agreed, in principle, to exchange up to 1.9% of West Bank land for Israeli territory.
The Constitutional Treaty includes guarantees to ensure that the EU adheres to this principle strictly.
In principle, governments could bridge the gap, but high (and rising) debt constrains their capacity to do so (though how constrained is a matter of heated debate).
There are of course exceptions to this principle.
The guiding principle of public health is to prevent disease before it strikes, and this requires long-term investment in institutions that can protect us.
Mute suffering is fine as a moral principle, but only Gandhi could use it to bring about meaningful change.
He destroyed the credibility of colonialism by opposing principle to force.
The most important principle to uphold is the distinction between hearing someone and honoring someone.
The world has already accepted the basic principle that the rich should bear more of the cost of mitigating climate change.
But if we take Flake at his word that he is acting on principle, we must ask: what principle?
But if he wants us to believe that his speech and decision to resign are in the service of the country, and based on principle, then he needs to explain what that principle is.
In his 2017 book, Conscience of a Conservative, Flake boldly asserts that “we have become so estranged from our principles that we no longer know what principle is.”
In his speech, Flake cited the Republican president Theodore Roosevelt as the model of “conscience and principle” to which he aspires.
Now, that is a principle upon which the United States, and any republic, should stand.
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