The information was refused and Coutard turned down the job, on principle.
If the Federal Election Commission, the agency charged with receiving and reviewing the reports and making the information available, falls down on the job, this principle is undermined.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who won a landslide election last year, finds reform constantly frustrated by the power of self-serving politicians to thwart the public interest and by political parties more interested in jobs than principles.
The PAL itself does a fairly simple job, in principle.
He was a guy who was never too old to quit a job on principle, never too old to forgive and forget, never too old to think he was done improving the world.
When it comes to insider threats, organizations should follow the advice experts have been issuing for decades – limit employees' access and permissions to what they need to do their jobs – the principle of "least privilege". It's called Identity and Access Management (IAM), and it's a security fundamental.
Rather than change course, "we have to do a better job communicating our principles to hard-working taxpayers," he said in the interview last week.
But lawyers for the petitioners say that once workers are on the job, human rights principles require that their lives be protected equally, regardless of what the commission calls "migratory status".
The other, more complicated way, would be to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a completely newly drafted British bill of rights that tried to do the job from first principles.
Paul Martin lost both his job and his principles.
If you take away the stripping part which makes it not seem like a normal job, the underlying principles are EXACTLY the same as other jobs.
