"adopted in principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It means that a general agreement or approval has been achieved, but not necessarily all details have been finalized. For example, "The board of directors adopted in principle a plan to update the office space."
Mr Sharon's aides say both decisions were adopted in principle some time ago, and that Mr Peres was on board.
UK Food Standards Agency labelling guidelines were adopted in principle by the European Union in 2010, and following a five year period for compliance civil suits may be brought against anyone misusing the terms from 2015.
Time-difference-of-arrival (TDoA) techniques could be adopted in principle, but they require perfect synchronization among different SU receivers, which is not always possible in CR systems.
Is the 'harm principle', famously propounded by J.S. Mill and widely adopted in bioethics, an appropriate principle to guide public health regulation?
The approach adopted in this paper can in principle, be applied to any four-dimensional integrable system.
In the late 80s, France coined the notion of "cultural exception" which has since morphed into the less arrogant-sounding "cultural diversity", a principle adopted in October 2005 by Unesco as a legally binding convention passed by 185 states against two.
Although the uniform risk assessment approach (using the "infected premises" principle) adopted in "Incident I" can be implemented rapidly and easily enforced, it lacks the specificity required when advising anxious workers on the need for antiviral prophylaxis.
The New York PSAT has the strongest alignment with the relational elements of the AMP principles adopted in this paper while VicHealth and Nuffield tools showed greatest alignment with the process elements in the chosen principles.
"Some of the legal principles adopted in Bayou are the same ones that the trustee is applying," said Richard Kirby, the lead lawyer for the creditors committee in the Bayou case.
It includes many of the same principles adopted in a bill approved by the Senate earlier this month by a vote of 95-5.
It then proposes and examines important synergies between fundamental safety principles adopted in risk management, including defense- and observability- in depth, and NMS.
