Principle
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In principle, even inactive immigrants will then be eligible for social-welfare benefits, just like nationals.
In principle, the IMF is supposed to press countries with undervalued exchange rates to let their currencies appreciate.
Subsequent Security Council resolutions and international treaties have upheld this
principle.
The really large currencies – the dollar, the euro, and the yen – were never managed explicitly or solely on this
principle.
The territorial disputes in the South China Sea are the strongest indicator yet that ASEAN’s consensus
principle
is limiting the organization’s effectiveness.
That said, the consensus
principle
should not be abandoned.
In the National Security Strategy of September 2002, the Bush administration calls free trade not only a meritorious policy, but also a “moral principle.”
When protecting capital is elevated to a moral principle, or justified as a component of human rights in a region resentful over its sense of economic subjugation, the effect is to foster disillusion with human rights.
And it was the motivation behind the 1969 creation of the IMF’s Special Drawing Right (SDR), which was supposed to become “the
principle
reserve asset in the international monetary system.”
Europe is for Turkey “a
principle
of moderation” and an enticement to remain democratic.
It is not a bad
principle
for economic policy in the best of times.
In principle, the financial industry can become smaller by having each institution contract proportionately, say, by 15%.
On the
principle
that you become what you hate, these paramilitary groups have also captured a slice of the lucrative drug trade.
Thus, today’s NAM finds itself as a group in search of purpose and
principle.
Some American civil rights lawyers, out of natural deference to the United States Constitution’s First Amendment were, however, reluctant to sign up to this
principle
unless it was qualified by a reference to the threat of “imminent” violence.
They must, instead, encourage nations positively to promote the
principle
of equal rights in keeping with current interpretations of international obligation.
The
principle
of a just division of water resources to meet the Palestinians’ urgent needs for additional water should be taken as a starting point.
The World Trade Organization (WTO), supposedly run on the
principle
of one country one vote, actually has its agenda selected behind the stage by a small group of nations.
In principle, the EU’s banking rules are common to all member states.
In other areas of public policy, such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, inflation, or vaccination, an “insurance”
principle
seems to prevail: if there is a sufficient likelihood of significant damage, we take some measured anticipatory action.
At the opposite extreme is what is often called the “precautionary” principle, now popular in the European Union: until something – for example, genetically modified foods – is guaranteed safe, it must be postponed indefinitely, despite substantial expected benefits.
Unless we do that better, fewer people will vote for MEPs, more of them will be elected simply on a protest vote and represent Europe’s murky extremes, and the whole practice and
principle
of European democracy will be discredited.
Monetary policy is, in principle, decided by the Federal Open Market Committee, which includes 12 voting members: the seven Fed governors, the president of the New York Fed, and four presidents of the other 11 regional Federal Reserve Banks (who serve on a one-year rotating basis).
But affirmative action must not become an enduring
principle
of a liberal order.
These norms are in keeping with the
principle
of sound governance embodied in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Of course free trade exists in principle, but there are often important snags at borders and within countries.
In principle, the entire Eurozone forms a single market, but that is not how things work out in practice.
They are part of a process of normalization, of the establishment of absolute civilian control of the military, and confirmation of the
principle
that no one is above the law.
After all, a basic
principle
of corporate social responsibility is that firms should pay their fair share of taxes wherever they operate.
In principle, with flexible labor markets, migration creates welfare gains for all countries.
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