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If one is looking for an abstract principle to follow on questions of immigration, liberalism cannot provide it.
In principle, banks should be attracted to the proposal, because restructured loans are less likely to default.
It is only a matter of time – of overcoming habit, prejudice, and inertia – before what is accepted in principle becomes practice.
In tennis, the principle of equal pay for unequal performance is accepted for grand slam events, but not for many others.
They were particularly interested in identifying jobs that were routine, even if complex and difficult, which could in principle be replaced by a sufficiently well-programmed computer.
Addressing it will demand not just more innovation, but also the application of existing solutions like the Mohalla Clinics, based on the recognition that health is a public good and that effective health-care systems are built on social solidarity – the same principle that informs all of the SDGs.
In principle, IDB membership requires OAS membership, and therein may lie the reason why Cuba insisted so strongly on returning, and why it was ultimately disappointed in not obtaining unconditional re-admission.
For the West, the principle of not redrawing borders by force is a vital political concern – indeed, it is a pillar of a civilized world order.
But one should remember that these problems are only part of the picture – and, in principle, they can be solved over the long term.
It is important to distinguish such problems from those that cannot, in principle, be solved.
The Volkswagen law also deters private investors from acquiring shares in the company, despite the principle of free capital mobility within the EU.
But blindly sticking to principle would have been a highly risky option for the ECB.
Massacres of civilians conducted with chemical weapons hardly correspond to the principle of defending states’ territorial integrity and political independence.
Accepting that humanitarian intervention without Security Council authorization is in principle compatible with the UN Charter gets us only so far, however.
Above all, where the objective of using force is humanitarian, minimizing the humanitarian harms from intervention follows from the logic of necessity, as both a legal norm and moral principle.
In principle, he is right.
Nevertheless, the crisis poses an almost existential challenge to the European Union – and has required such huge sums – because it directly implicates the key underlying principle of European governance: the nature of the state.
Using oil or natural gas for domestic electricity threatens oil and gas exports, which are the principle source of government revenues.
India’s economy must be freed from the organizing principle of state control, so that individual enterprise and creativity can become its main engine.
For some, the goal is to find universal principles from which to derive moral judgments: Kant’s categorical imperative, Bentham’s utilitarian principle, and John Rawls’s veil of ignorance are some of the best-known examples.
This transformation is based on one sound principle and two shaky ones.
The sound principle is excess collateral.
The first shaky principle is that if the return on these bonds is highly correlated, so that they all default at the same time, overcollateralization is not much help.
The second shaky principle is that, in order to validate these instruments, issuers of CDOs relied on credit-rating agencies.
The first is the republican principle, enshrined in the Constitution, that recognizes only citizens and does not accept any distinction among them due to origin, race, or religion.
True, there are backlashes in Asia against Westernization, and some try to promote so-called Asian values, such as the “harmony principle.”
Freedom of expression is a core democratic principle.
The second principle – that editing “should not produce or exacerbate social division, or marginalize or disadvantage groups in society” – does, in fairness, move the debate beyond the choice of individual parents.
In principle, euroization is likely to eradicate the exchange-rate risk premium for the new entrants.
The trade negotiations that followed were different – at least in principle, they were supposed to be a development round, to make up for some of the deficiencies highlighted by protesters – and the International Monetary Fund subsequently undertook significant reforms.
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