Principle
in sentence
1862 examples of Principle in a sentence
The French junior Human Rights Minister, Rama Yade, declared that the United Nations’
principle
of the “responsibility to protect” should be applied to Burma, forcibly if necessary.
A fundamental
principle
of financial theory – “diversification” or “risk spreading” – implies that interest in the new contracts will be high.
As markets failed, calls for ethical regulation of the quest for profit has become justified not only in principle, but also in fact.
As a matter of positive constitutional law, all members of the EU, under the tutelage of the European Convention on Human Rights, are committed to the
principle
of the "Agnostic or Impartial State," which guarantees both freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
What is remarkable about Europe-a value to be cherished-is that even in such states, the
principle
of freedom of religion and freedom from religion are fully respected.
I believe it is easy to find: the European Union embodies the
principle
of open society, which could serve as a force for a global open society.
What this means in
principle
can be stated concisely: the EU needs a common foreign policy.
A plausible pickup in business investment in the US and northern Europe, combined with a sudden slowdown in Asian economies with surplus savings, could in
principle
produce an outsize rise in global rates, jeopardizing today’s low borrowing costs, frothy stock markets, and subdued volatility.
But, though this argument is valid in principle, economic models show that this risk has only a moderate effect on the best policy.
It is not subject to Heisenberg's famed uncertainty
principle.
The prevention of threats, along with law enforcement that involves prosecuting offenders, are crucial responsibilities, but they do not require, as a matter of principle, ever-newer security laws.
But democratic governance is in
principle
fixable, and institutional defenses and countermeasures do exist.
But if the basic premise of these trials is to uphold human rights, then we are obliged to extend that same
principle
to Duch.
The problem is that the
principle
of free and fair competition that characterizes the developed world is subversive of the Russian state that Putin has built – a state based on the merger of government and business.
Around the time when India’s prohibition of sodomy was enacted, John Stuart Mill was writing his celebrated essay On Liberty , in which he put forward the following principle:...the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Mill’s
principle
is not universally accepted.
The distinguished twentieth-century British philosopher of law, H.L.A. Hart, argued for a partial version of Mill’s
principle.
Nevertheless, few researchers doubt that what Hwang and his colleagues claimed to do is, in principle, achievable.
There is a simple prudential
principle
at work here: because our ability to monitor and regulate behavior is necessarily imperfect, we need to rely on a broader set of interventions.
In principle, a single country might have to assume the entire burden of losses.
If a relatively open global system is to survive in a world where nation states are the
principle
decision makers, it will have to be managed and guided not just to achieve efficiency and stability (important as these goals are), but also to ensure that its benefits are distributed equitably between and within countries.
In an era when decolonization continues, with the
principle
of self-determination considered sacrosanct from Bosnia to Chechnya, and from the Baltics to the Palestinians -- it is indeed incredible that six million people were transferred from one set of rulers to another like mere chattel.
But, most importantly, Wanda Wyporska of The Equality Trust gave a fascinating talk about the
principle
of “equality for all.”
Russia and the Kosovo CardTBILISI – Look before you leap is as sound a
principle
in foreign policy as it is in life.
Even when they’re not, a higher
principle
surely comes into play.
With the Syrian government – through its murder of tens of thousands of civilians with barrel bombs and poison gas – having more than fulfilled the criteria for triggering the international community’s obligation to intervene, Brazil could suggest what an intervention that reflected the
principle
of “responsibility while protecting” might look like.
By contrast, in a deep, long-lasting recession, with the central bank’s policy rate at the zero lower bound (ZLB), a well-timed, sensible fiscal response can, in principle, be helpful.
As the economists Amartya Sen and Sudhir Anand argued more than a decade ago, “It would be a gross violation of the universalist
principle
if we were to be obsessed about intergenerational equity without at the same time seizing the problem of intragenerational equity.”
After ignoring the universalist
principle
for too long, world leaders finally seem to be acknowledging the magnitude of the problem – as well as their responsibilities to people far beyond their immediate electoral constituencies.
Precautionary AbsurdityPRINCETON – Many people who advocate draconian measures to counteract climate change base their argument on the so-called “precautionary principle,” which holds that when a possible future disaster would be unacceptably severe, action to prevent it is imperative.
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