Principle
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1862 examples of Principle in a sentence
Uzbekistan, which ought to welcome all the help it can get and probably doesn’t object to greater OSCE involvement in principle, is nonetheless dragging its feet, supposedly because of jealousy over all the attention Kazakhstan is gaining from its chairmanship.
Chapter 40 states, concisely, another powerful principle: “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay, right or justice.”
No Safe Havens for Dirty MoneyPARIS – In difficult economic times like these, one
principle
should be given the same prominence as the headline-grabbing issues of high deficits and austerity packages.
That
principle
can be captured in just a few words: “Everyone must play by the rules.”
The National School Board is, in principle, instructed to approve an application if the proposed school is likely to fulfill the national goals and has a solid financial base.
This is all the more remarkable insofar as the
principle
of competition on which it relies has taken root in a country where competition within the area of public services has not generally been accepted.
Britain has deviated from this
principle
only once, when it agreed to participate in the Atalanta anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa – probably because it was placed in command.
This
principle
of solidarity was missing when the decision to build a Baltic Sea pipeline to directly link Russia and Germany was taken.
The eurozone was founded on the “no bailout” principle: if member states could not repay their debts, lenders would bear the losses.
Instead of enforcing the no-bailout
principle
and establishing a precedent, debtor countries used official loans to repay private creditors.
As migrants move between markets with well-defined property rights, immigration in
principle
is beneficial for both the immigrants and the target country.
This would include contracts and licenses; details about how blocks – and exploration and production rights – are auctioned and awarded; revenue figures, to ensure that companies comply with the “Publish What You Pay” principle; environmental-impact studies (offshore and onshore); and reports on how the government allocates its revenues.
Snow’s emphasis on using data to guide his intervention is a
principle
that institutions like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation insist upon today.
The non-discrimination
principle
ensured that global trade did not become a “spaghetti bowl” of preferential bilateral trade agreements.
The
principle
of representative democracy is at the heart of European identity; ironically, only EU non-member Switzerland has a strong tradition of referenda.
Yes, in principle, there should be a way to fix the ills of the financial system without resort to inflation.
There have been several legal fights recently between city governments and state legislatures over the
principle
of preemption, which holds that state laws override local laws.
Allowing Parliament to decide about the new relationship with Europe, instead of leaving it entirely up to May, would restore the
principle
of parliamentary sovereignty.
Is gender balance so important that it justifies overriding the
principle
of allocating educational opportunities on the basis of merit?
Despite Faust’s rejection of divestment, Harvard and other universities have long accepted the
principle
that divestment is the correct choice in certain circumstances.
Otmar Issing, one of the fathers of the common currency, correctly stated the
principle
on which it was founded: the euro was meant to be a monetary union, but not a political one.
This
principle
was enshrined in Article 125 of the Maastricht Treaty, which has since been rigorously interpreted by the German constitutional court.
The principle, however, is patently flawed.
And an international court’s credibility and moral standing depends on the fundamental
principle
that everyone is equal before the law.
A cheaper currency could, in principle, reverse the effects of austerity.
Many of us can see the appeal of the Old Testament
principle
of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
This design was crafted not only from enlightened
principle
but from necessity: America needed to persuade people to cross the ocean and endure the hardships of the frontier and, later, industrialization.
More and more young women are making just such practical choices: putting an apartment before love and pragmatism before
principle.
The US must accept this principle, and recognize that Europe is a partner, not merely a servant, whether willing or unwilling, of American orders.
They can only control when to adopt it, which in
principle
could be as early as two years after EU admission.
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