Principle
in sentence
1862 examples of Principle in a sentence
Politicians and lawyers may dislike this solution, because it undermines the EU's
principle
of social inclusion for employment and resembles arrangements that currently apply to EU citizens who live in other member countries without working there.
For example, the EU has long been committed to the “precautionary principle,” which prevents products that may harm human health from entering the EU market – even if the scientific evidence is not yet conclusive.
This
principle
underpins the EU’s refusal to import genetically modified (GM) foods from the US, where they are widely consumed.
In 1949, the world was rapidly dividing into two
principle
political-military blocs, East and West, alongside a large “non-aligned movement.”
Cross-border intra-company transactions are accounted for according to market prices for similar transactions – the so-called “arm’s-length principle” (ALP).
The accrual
principle
typical of financial accounting is incompatible with tax systems’ realization
principle.
The options currently on the table leave the home-regulator
principle
largely intact.
The origin of the black swan metaphor was the belief that all swans are white, a conclusion that a nineteenth-century Englishman might have reached based on a lifetime of personal observation and David Hume’s
principle
of induction.
Opposition to genocide and other large-scale acts of violence against a population also reflects the established
principle
that citizens as well as governments have rights.
This
principle
is enshrined in various international documents, beginning with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This idea will only have an impact if the international community is prepared to go beyond voicing this
principle
and accept the necessary consequence: that other states and the world at large have a right and a duty to act to protect innocent life when it is jeopardized on a large scale.
After citing the
principle
of non-interference by one member state in the internal affairs of another, the document goes on to declare “the right of the Union to intervene in a member state pursuant to a decision of the assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.”
Having verified its massive corruption, human-rights violations, and crimes against humanity, the international community now recognizes that the
principle
of non-interference in countries’ internal affairs no longer applies.
Medvedev’s proposed transatlantic security treaty would enshrine the
principle
of avoiding external force to resolve national disputes, which would rule out international intervention in the conflicts affecting the northern Caucasus, including Chechnya.
The status quo would be reinforced further by the
principle
that no country may increase its security to the detriment of another.
Second, the
principle
of the indivisibility of European and US security, so fundamental during the Cold War, remains valid.
Given these risks, the most important priority for Chinese firms as they interpret the government’s new vision for overseas investment – whether in Latin America or elsewhere – is to stick to the
principle
of sustainability.
On several occasions, Putin has referred to Eurasianism as an important part of Russian ideology; he has even invoked it as a founding
principle
of the “Eurasian Economic Union,” a burgeoning trade area of former Soviet states.
No one disputes that quantum phenomena, if they could be harnessed, would revolutionize information processing, enabling ways of computing that no existing computer, even in principle, would be capable of duplicating.
After all, nobody accepts Israel's claim to oppose as a matter of
principle
the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Other researchers apply the same
principle
to higher levels of the brain.
The debate to which economic migration gave rise was between liberals, who upheld the
principle
of the free movement of labor, and those who wanted restrictions on movement among countries in order to protect jobs, culture, and/or political cohesion.
Without it, the precautionary
principle
– if in doubt, don’t do it – should be applied.
My guiding
principle
is that the allocation of refugees within the EU should be entirely voluntary.
A basic
principle
of toxicology is that the dose makes the poison.
We can start with a simple principle: We should strive not for maximum openness in trade and finance, but for levels of openness that leave ample room for the pursuit of domestic social and economic objectives in rich and poor countries alike.
Advocates of this position go on to deploy the so-called "precautionary
principle"
to counter the argument that there is no scientific evidence that DDT spraying damages natural capital.
The precautionary
principle
is a variant on Pascal's famous wager on the existence of God.
Iran has now enriched enough uranium to produce (in principle) one nuclear bomb.
In principle, the US recession could end up being shaped like a V, U, W, or L. Which of these four scenarios is most likely?
Back
Next
Related words
Should
Which
Their
Could
Would
Other
Countries
There
Based
Policy
International
People
States
Economic
Government
Political
First
About
World
Fundamental
