Principle
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1862 examples of Principle in a sentence
This
principle
leads people to advocate enormously costly actions to prevent disasters that are even more enormous but whose likelihood highly uncertain.
As a result of widespread reliance on the precautionary principle, doomsday scenarios have come to dominate discussion of climate change.
What is wrong with the precautionary
principle?
The problem is that the
principle
cannot be applied consistently.
The precautionary
principle
prescribes action, regardless of cost, to prevent all of them.
These are the facts of life that the precautionary
principle
tells us to ignore.
At that point, the precautionary
principle
might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.
The precautionary
principle
is not a useful substitute for scientific understanding.
Beside reforms of Council and Commission, there is a leap of
principle
to be made here.
The Nice Council should endorse the
principle
of ‘enhanced cooperation’, so long as such cooperation is flexible, transparent and genuinely, at all stages, open to all member states who wish to join.
To be sure, the dissolution of the Schengen Agreement, which instituted passport-free travel within most of the EU starting in 1995, need not mark the end of the European project, at least not in
principle.
Future US policy must embody a simple but powerful principle: America will engage with and support (through various kinds of foreign assistance) any government chosen through internationally monitored free and fair elections that then governs according to a popularly ratified national constitution, with compliance overseen by an independent judiciary.
The support of a multi-millionaire now counts vastly more than that of an ordinary citizen, making a mockery of the
principle
of “one man, one vote.”
Democracy can work properly only if all citizens’ operative
principle
is: “I may hate what you stand for, but as long as you are elected fairly and govern constitutionally, I will defend to the death your right to compete and win.”
Even if an individual decides to affirm a very conservative version of a tradition, this decision may, at least in principle, be revoked at some future time.
A second adjustment is necessary because conservationists follow the
principle
that a species survives even if it is not recently recorded in its native habitat.
According to the subsidiarity principle, economic competencies should be transferred to the lowest possible government body.
Many developing countries, in particular, remain jealous of their sovereignty and fear that the new
principle
could infringe it.
The much-vaunted European
principle
of justice and transparency demands it.
Nor should they fixate on the mutual defense commitment contained in Article 5 of the NATO Charter, even though the
principle
that an attack on one NATO member is regarded as an attack against all is crucial to the alliance.
By contrast, both America’s worldwide system and other countries’ hybrid territorial systems rely on an “origin or source principle” that bases taxation largely on where input costs and production activities are located.
But, as a matter of economic principle, practical diplomacy, and visionary politics, aren't regional free-trade areas at least a step in the right direction?
America’s financial industry polluted the world with toxic mortgages, and, in line with the well established “polluter pays” principle, taxes should be imposed on it.
But rather than insist as a matter of
principle
on operating the fuel cycle independently under national sovereignty, Iran could engage the Saudis about their idea of a regional joint venture, or explore different options of multilateral consortia with other countries.
But the Arab Spring exposed the policy’s vulnerabilities, and Turkey must now seek a new guiding
principle
for regional engagement.
Though Turkey’s Western partners swiftly broke with Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi in support of the opposition, the “zero problems”
principle
dictated that the Turkish government maintain relations with the old regime.
Short-term commercial or other interests should not be permitted to undermine core matters of
principle.
More broadly, the growth of FTA’s undermines the central
principle
of the multilateral trading system: trade opportunities should be offered to all countries equally.
A different
principle
of fairness arises if we consider greenhouse gases as pollution, and apply the
principle
that whoever caused the pollution should pay to clean it up.
On the equal shares principle, US emissions should be no more than one-third of what they are today, and on the other principles, even less.
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