Sentence examples for held in principle from inspiring English sources

First, a vote was taken as to whether an ostracism should be held in principle; if the voters wanted one, a second vote was taken, and, if the total number of votes now cast exceeded 6,000, the "candidate" whose name appeared on the largest number of potsherds, or ostraca, went into this special sort of exile.

Pushing this idea further, some disputers may have held that in principle distinctions could be abandoned entirely, leading us to view the world as an undivided whole, the "Great One".

When SWISSspine was in its role-out phase Mirza commented on important issues like polyethylene debris, loosening, infection, and bone-implant interface [ 53] and concluded that hopes for a cure of back pain and a marketing bonanza must be held in check by principles of fairness and responsibility and by the long-term results [ 53].

This principle held in 2012 as well.

As we held in that case: "The principle that government may accommodate the free exercise of religion does not supersede the fundamental limitations imposed by the establishment clause.

As the court of appeals held in that case, constitutional principles of due process and fundamental fairness preclude the states from adopting "a postelection departure from previous practice" and applying that postelection rule retroactively to determine the outcome of an election.

Britain's planned central records for the NHS, for example, will assume consent as it combines all the medical records held in local practice databases.The second principle, says Mr Cameron, should be to keep down the risk of a breach by using as little information as possible to achieve the task in hand.

The 12th plenum of the 9th Central Committee, held in July 2005, laid down the principles for the Personnel Appointments subcommittee to work within: * (i) quality of candidates in terms of qualifications and a "clean" CV * (ii) reasonable distribution of candidates among different sectors and representations from among the population to ensure total Party leadership in all areas.

Round table on "Children's rights and business principles" was held in the Parliament recently with the support of UNICEF.

This caveat also holds true in principle for barcoding methods that rely on the PCR amplification and subsequent massively parallel next-generation sequencing of amplicons from variable genomic or cell organelle DNA regions (e.g. 16S rDNA, rDNA-ITS or mitochondrial COI [ 11]).

This principle cannot be held in isolation from the fate of other public services, many of which are being torn to pieces by the coalition.