Sentence examples for objection in principle from inspiring English sources

He told the Iranians he had no objection in principle to such collaboration.

Do you see any moral or constitutional objection, in principle, to such policies?

The Scottish Episcopal Church recently decided there was no objection in principle to women becoming bishops.

So there is no objection in principle to religious arguments in political debates.

The majority had no objection in principle to converting the device into a bug; a dissenter would have allowed the eavesdropping even at the expense of safety.

Not only did the candidates respond, but the Chancellor said he had no objection in principle to similar disclosures being required of others standing for elected office.

Three days later, a Cabinet Office note records that no objections "in principle" had been raised to transfers to Guantánamo.

Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, has said that Canada has no objections "in principle" to Cameron's plan for a crackdown on tax havens.

Though estimates of this kind are subject to some objections in principle, they do serve a useful purpose in stressing the potential of education and technical training in raising productivity and the risk of investing too little in them relative to other forms of investment.

Argyris Papadimitropoulos, a 35-year-old Greek filmmaker, said he had no objections in principle to the landmark's being used, "as long as it's not whimsical rubbish showing stereotypes with women on donkeys and it's not a postcard image".

In response to a question, scribbled on a copy of the Cabinet Office agenda for 11 January, about the legality of US detention of non-prisoner of war combatants, he offered a scribbled answer: "Consider later if we have to in extremis but it's still dodgy I would think". Three days later, a Cabinet Office note records that no objections "in principle" had been raised to transfers to Guantánamo.