A US package for $1bn gained support in principle from congressional Republicans.
It is easy for ministers to condemn the death penalty in principle from Foreign Office briefing rooms.
It has negotiated a cost in principle from the drug companies of less than $10 a head, of which governments would pay just 30 cents.
Johnson said the agreement in principle from the Department for Transport was "a massive breakthrough" but added: "We're not going to deliver miracles overnight.
A single loan obtained from a bank by a business firm is not different in principle from a loan obtained by an individual.
You need to get your finances in order before auction day, so if you're getting a mortgage you need an agreement in principle from your lender.
In fact, humanity seems to be cut off in principle from ever knowing whether there are such things as abstract objects.
Otherwise, you will probably need to arrange a mortgage agreement in principle from a local bank as only a few UK banks lend for overseas purchases.
Though doing that with the technology of 1990 would have taken centuries, if not millennia, it was possible in principle from the beginning.BRAIN, is rather different.
It differs radically in principle from carved and modeled sculpture, both of which are fabricated out of a homogeneous mass of material.
