Sentence examples for in principle and in substance from inspiring English sources

But even Mr. Descoings says he has been amazed at the anger over his small effort, announced two months ago, which is being criticized both in principle and in substance.

You were not the woman of principle and substance they had believed in.

What the two musical performances and the two utterances have in common is an identity of form, and this form, or structure, or pattern, is in principle independent of the substance, or "raw material," upon which it is imposed.

When Thales choses water as the "the principle and substance of all that is" (LHP I: 175) he has abstracted the concept water from the stuff immediately encountered in puddles and so on.

Many experts are of the opinion that the testing requirements, test strategies and test methods under REACH are in principle applicable to nanoscale substances.

The active principle in a substance offers thoughts to itself thoughts produced by emanation (Mercer, 325, 366f).

Nerve agents are not hard to make in principle, but in practice it takes specialised facilities and training to mix the substances safely.

As mentioned in the introduction, it is in principle possible to label the substance with Gd and to use gamma-counting for estimation of the Gd concentration in tissue samples.

We recently developed a methodology that should in principle allow visual screening for substances that inhibit sporozoite motility [26].

Berkeley explicitly affirms that spirits are substances in the Principles and Dialogues.

Carcinogens, mutagens and substances toxic to reproduction (CMR substances) are in principle prohibited according to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 [1], but there are exceptions for these substances where 'their use has been found safe' by the Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety (SCCS) [1].