It is in this context that Franck and Weisband's Foreign Policy by Congress is to be recommended to any serious student of Goldwater v. Carter, for whatever legal principles finally come to govern the power to terminate treaties must, if they are to be viable, be founded on the underlying realities of presidential and congressional power.
America is used to dealing with cynical Arab rulers who casually betray whatever principle they proclaim for their own benefit.
He can cite whatever principle he likes, but the fact is, Bill had a member of his own species destroyed for behaving "naturally".
Indeed, whatever principle is chosen, similar shortcomings and normative choices will arise in transitioning from principle to practice.
A vision is not a goal: it is the organizing principle for whatever goals we may have.
But whatever his circumstances, the basic, decent fact remains: American soldiers must not be abandoned, for whatever reason -- a principle that has been upheld throughout history, war after war after war.
The Taliban's commitment to their principles (whatever their principles may be) is unquestionable.
The principle can't be proved deductively, for whatever can be proved deductively is a necessary truth, and the principle is not necessary; its antecedent is consistent with the denial of its consequent.
For whatever reason – she has said it was a matter of principle – Huffington rebelled at AOL's arrangement with Arrington.
Once a principle is modified, not to say violated, for whatever reason, other exceptions become conceivable, even possible.
