The phrase "approach in principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a general method or perspective on a topic, often indicating a theoretical or conceptual stance rather than a practical application.
Example: "While we may not agree on all the details, we can approach in principle the idea of collaboration for mutual benefit."
Alternatives: "theoretically consider" or "conceptually address".
The hope was that biological markers of such syndromes would be discovered as physiological understanding increased.This was a reasonable approach in principle.
"There will be the same approach in principle if the new law is passed".
The partners have agreed to the approach in principle while management works out the schedule in more detail.
We found that the preferences of stakeholder organisations are more similar than might be expected with actors from both cases generally preferring a land-sharing approach in principle.
This exposure of metadata we regard as a better approach in principle to the often used alternative of including image representations of the molecular connectivity, which provides no exposed metadata.
With the aid of the ALE approach, in principle almost a complete silo discharge process may be simulated satisfactorily without mesh distortion problems, which are often encountered in modelling silo discharge using a continuum approach.
This integrated molecular profiling approach can in principle be applied to any loci of interest and provides a powerful method for elucidating early mechanisms and pathways underlying non-genotoxic carcinogenesis.
The clustering approach can in principle be used for constructing multiple alignments.
This approach should in principle be biased towards proteins that are of particular importance for bacterial interactions with the environment.
This approach can in principle be used to study interactions in joint sequence space for any complex of molecules, including those with more than two elements.
While the current study has provided insights into the postnatal development of one particular class of neurons in the substantia nigra, the approach could in principle be applied to any type of neuron.
