Actually, to take such claims seriously backs up a principle worth stating, restating and stating again: rough justice is really no justice at all.
Sunde's views may come to reflect a growing intolerance of Apple's influence, and--given that it's backed by a principle of sorts--an acceptance of the idea of circumventing the App Store's terms of service to pirate its apps.
Another adviser, Regnan, also backed a review in principle.
Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce, from Northern Ireland, is prepared to back a decision in principle to move the World Cup to the winter.
Although the new rules could be applied only in carefully circumscribed situations, they stepped back from a principle dating back to the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, when American judges wrote an international code of medical ethics.
Meanwhile, it spent €246m on wages and lost a total of €937m.On June 29th, with tear gas billowing around the rioters outside the Greek parliament, politicians in principle backed a new punishing austerity plan.
Mr. Wolfson's father, Jerry Wolfson, 81, sweetly chimed in, claiming that somehow he just knew that the precocious boy who became a lawyer could even, he said, "go to China and back" for a principle he believed in.
Writ large, that argument falls back on a principle that has fueled the free trade argument for more than a century: nations flourish by focusing on their comparative advantage — the things that they do best — and trading with other countries for the things that those countries are more efficient at producing.
As I ponder the motivations of powerful leaders abusing their positions, I always come back to a principle I believe strongly in.
The document, described in Washington DC as a statement of principles, backs a mechanism for "people who are living and working here illegally to come forward and get right with the law", but without a "special path to citizenship".
We have plenty of time". Uefa's 54 members have already voted in principle to back a move to winter and Blatter has said the tournament cannot be played in June temperatures that regularly reach 50 degrees, despite earlier insisting that any move to switch the tournament must come from the organisers.
