"It's a good idea in principle to make public records accessible to the public, but as with so many technical advances, it's hard to predict the problems that will arrive," said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
It is not exactly news that no one thinks it is a good idea in principle to let unsuccessful executives reap huge rewards from the companies that they have failed.
And I'd argue that an important source of failure was what I've taken to calling the timidity trap — the consistent tendency of policy makers who have the right ideas in principle to go for half-measures in practice, and the way this timidity ends up backfiring, politically and even economically.
It initially focused its lobbying efforts on Barnaby Joyce, who agreed with the idea in-principle, but couldn't get state ministers to agree.
Leaders of the World Hindu Council said acceptance of the pillars, called shilas, signaled that the government agreed in principle to the idea of erecting a Ram temple here.
Mr. Bush has now agreed, in principle, to the idea of a timetable for troop withdrawals from Iraq, something he has long derided as dangerous.
Many in the Vyatsky Market were not opposed in principle to the idea of replacing services with cash, as long as the amount would be enough to purchase what would be taken away.
Though none of those who spoke would describe themselves as Maoist, few were opposed in principle to the idea that people have a right to defend themselves against state violence.
Mr. Gromyko, according to the German sources, has agreed in principle to the idea of preamble but has proposed his own, which presumably does not correspond to that of Bonn.
The authorities in Kosovo and Albania have hotly denied the story.Fear of professional failureJust why is there such a lack of donors in rich countries, given that, according to opinion polls, most people like the idea of donation and are ready in principle to participate?
If the government believes student choice drives up quality, why restrict it for some and extend it for just a sub-set of students from more privileged backgrounds, who are in no better position to exercise that choice than anyone else? Far from objecting in principle to the idea of a market, or liberalisation of student numbers, I believe that liberalisation should go further.
