Sentence examples for correct in principle from inspiring English sources

75 If the respondent's argument were correct in principle, of course, the absence of authority would not prevent his success.

Bodansky continued, "Look, bin Laden is probably right — a value system he cares about dearly is succumbing to the onslaught of Western civilization.... He's absolutely correct in principle.

Although it was basically correct in principle, its operating quality was poor, and he found himself unable to interest film producers in its possibilities.

Both approaches, equally correct in principle, will have to demonstrate, with definitive evidence of their efficacy, their capability of solving a critical clinical problem such as non-union.

The postulate that large domain sizes in two-phase blends obscure the presence of phase separation is correct in principle, but requires dimensions some ten times larger than the ∼1 μm sizes reported for the systems in question.

Dr. Easton, Dr. Hunter and Dr. Kari Stefansson, DeCode's chief executive, all said the criticism was correct in principle but could be accounted for, as they had each done, by taking the few most promising sites in one whole genome association scan and testing them in a second population.

Any residual inhomogeneity in illumination can be corrected (in principle) by applying flat field correction digitally (methods can be found in standard optical microscopy or image processing text books).

The flaw in Dalton's theory was corrected in principle in 1811 by Amedeo Avogadro.

While this is a correct statement in principle, whether one can measure all the components experimentally depends upon many practical factors.

Of course, we have corrected this in principle, if not practice.

To be able to detect these faulty thoughts, we included a second correct answer alternative ("In principle, the same thing is happening when the nozzle of an inflated balloon is opened, and the balloon is whizzing through the air").