The phrase "action in principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a decision or agreement that is accepted conceptually but may require further details or implementation.
Example: "The committee has agreed to the action in principle, but we need to finalize the specifics before proceeding."
Alternatives: "conceptual agreement" or "preliminary decision".
He is not against action in principle, he says.
Clegg says he will vote for military action in principle tonight.
As university presidents and administrators studied the Supreme Court's decisions to allow affirmative action in principle, if not always as practiced, many said the rulings afforded them more discretion than expected, though somewhat less than they had hoped for.
Instead, he rhetorically flogged the "special interests" behind sugary drinks and promised to appeal the judge's ruling.However this goes forward, I hope Mr Bloomberg remembers that even in lefty New York, there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with government action in principle, especially when it interrupts private decision-making.
Last week, the government lost a Commons vote on supporting action, in principle, against Assad's government by 13 votes.
Earlier this month, the Edinburgh Bar Association voted unanimously to take action in principle if the government pressed ahead with the bill.
The principles for state action might in principle be entirely separate and distinct from the principles that determine morally acceptable individual conduct.
It follows from the analogies between discourse and action that all action is in principle interaction, just as all discourse is in principle dialogical.
In this situation the action effect b for action a, in principle is positive for the agent, like in the first scenario.
Our current statute on aliens and nationality sets out seven categories of actions for which citizenship can in principle be lost.
I have nothing against rapid-fire montage in action scenes in principle, not if it's done properly.
