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The pairwise comparison of annotations is based on a principled mathematical approach to genomic analysis, where the test statistic in principle can be selected from a range of relations between annotation tracks generically represented as tracks of points, segments or functions.

"And while I did not always agree with Don, he always took positions in a tax controversy on a principled basis," Mr. Cohen said.

"You've got to just develop as thick a skin as you can, understand that some people will disagree with you on a principled basis but other people will disagree with you for purely political and partisan reasons," he said.

A former candidate for the Conservative Party leadership, Mr Davis says he will stand in a by-election in his constituency on a principled position of opposition to 42 days specifically and the "slow strangulation" of civil liberties generally.

Dr. Reisner has based his candidacy on "a principled stance against our nation's policy of using psychologists to oversee abusive and coercive interrogations" at Guantánamo and the so-called black sites operated by the Central Intelligence Agency.

If it became a Nato member, it could not retain its close ties with the important group of nonaligned countries, nor could it preserve its reputation as a country that participates in UN peace missions on a principled basis.

There is perhaps no reputation in American politics over the past generation more undeserved than the acclaim that has surrounded Schneiderman as a principled, tough-on-white-collar-crime Democrat.

I believe that he can win on his record and the merits of a principled stand on campaign financing and in so doing would transform electoral politics in our fair land.

"An indelible blot on the record of a principled man," New York Times pundit Anthony Lewis wrote last month of Shultz, while likening Abrams to Wernher von Braun -- as in the Tom Lehrer ditty: Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?/ "It's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

"It's one thing to have a principled position on an issue at odds with that of your party," said Thomas E. Mann, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution.

Obviously, the defeat of AV will not immediately trigger a referendum on PR, but a principled "No to AV, Yes to PR" can keep the door open for real reform.