Sentence examples for not in principle from inspiring English sources

Such reports prompted a pre-emptive warning from Russia's foreign ministry that such a no-fly zone would not "in principle" be tolerated.

We are not in principle against delisting the bears.

But he says he is not in principle opposed to standardised tests, such as Sats.

"I am not in principle saying that no kind of repatriation can take place.

So it would not in principle be surprising if the same were true of animals.

But he decided that consequential losses were not in principle recoverable under the legislation.

In fact this is not in principle a new idea at all.

There is not, in principle, only one way of introducing social sciences into safety assessment practices.

Similar problems should not, in principle, occur for so-called vented pressure transducers.

And hedge funds are not in principle the place for bullish bets on Asian growth.

The pragmatic criterion of significance is expressly epistemic, not semantic: it speaks of relevance with regard to an established cognitive practice, not in-principle truth-evaluability.