Certainly not!" People don't realize, Miss Manners said, that to the Greeks morals and manners were topics as worthy of inquiry as the principles of democratic society.
"But we believe that as the principles are implemented, they will be refined and improved and that gaps will be filled".
In poetry, too, the first products of Western influence were comically inept experiments with rhyme and with such unpromising subjects as the principles of sociology.
And, third, a creative dynamic is needed between formal financial policy and cutting-edge standards flowing from civil society and from the market itself, such as the Principles for Responsible Investment and the Principles for Sustainable Insurance.
The sticking point seemed to be a provision that would elevate the "objectives" of the rebels' "humanitarian" wing to the same level as the principles that the aid agencies observe.
She said that the United States, working with Europe, Japan and Canada, has proposed an initiative within the World Trade Organization that would take much the same approach as the principles set out by the World Bank.
General Haroon said the soldiers studied weapons and tactics here, as well as the principles of the jihad, and then traveled to firing ranges outside of Kunduz to practice with explosives and guns.
But even so, as I note that Piketty's bookshelves are lined with such headache-inducing titles as The Principles of Microeconomics and The Political Influence of Keynesianism, simple folk like me still need some help here.
Those were all hallmarks of California cuisine, a phrase that went away as the principles it connoted took permanent root and became less exceptional, as restaurants far and wide exalted the local and seasonal and turned away from elaborate saucing and gut-busting richness.
The deficit that Mr. Kerry would face is much larger than the deficit that Mr. Clinton faced, Mr. Altman said, "so the task is bigger than we faced in 1993, but as far as the principles are concerned, they are essentially the same -- we're proposing to return to the approach that was so successful so recently".
Descartes published his system of the world in 1644 as the Principles of Philosophy (Principia Philosophae).
